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…strength .He refuses to attribute dark motives to Gene and he continues to subject himself to what may be a fatally codependent relationship, never imagining that Gene's feeling for him are not as pure as his for Gene. Gene wants not only to be like Finny, he…

…Andhara would be sent off to work, as she was promised to a slave owner from the day she was in my womb. The news came to me as a sharp blow. My eyes saw nothing but darkness and my heart clenched in sorrow. <Tab/>As I am writing, my body…

…to your people. As Machiavelli writes, Macbeth talks about hiding his dark self to the world. "MACBETH [aside]: The Prince of Cumberland-that is a step/ On which I must fall down or else o'erleap/ For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires / Let not light…

…single time. As Burnum gazed at the ground, he noticed his empty bottle of Metho. If he didn't replace it by the evening he would go to sleep with the same emotions he felt now. Metho was Burnums 'white and burning girl'. It would warm his heart and ease his…

…romantic ideals; his desire to 'pour a torrent of light into our dark world' (p52). Once again these romantic ideals give way to the realist and gothic genres. Frankenstein tells of his 'workshop of filthy creation' and working in the 'unhallowed damps…

…Albert Einstein once said "The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man." Without doubt, the evil that waits…

…how light is their friend, day their enemy, 'more light and light, more dark and dark our woes'. There are many references like this to quite a few opposites such as youth and age, hate and love and slow and fast. The conversation switches…

…Luhrmann uses many different techniques to create tension and impact in the Roxanne scene. The scene is already tense as it is a crisis moment in the film - Satine, the prostitute, must choose between breaking her true love Christian's heart and saving…

…. The easiest way to understand the terror and control that took place during European colonization came for me, from reading Heart of Darkness, Conrad proposes that control, particularly control over other human beings, will inevitably corrupt leading to revolt…

…masquerades as Christian and beautifully defines the meaning of love, which evidently woos Roxane’s heart. “Night, making all things dimly beautiful, One veil over us both- You only see The darkness of a long cloak in the gloom, And I the whiteness…