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…with the being, because he’s not like they are, he’s different. However, less emphasis is put on the quote which explains why the creature is as it is, “The hapless creature sojourned for a space in the sea-monsters’ home after the Creator had condemned him…

…in "The Old Man and the Sea" does totally the opposite, he wrote the story in short and detailed way that you feel like you are there sitting in the boat with the old man, watching him as he waits for the fish. This aspect of Hemingway's writing enables him…

…so full of adventures. Willa Cather's My Antonia was novel of the journey of Jim the main character's life. He moved from Virginia to Nebraska when he was nine years old because his parents died. As he grew up he moved from a farm to a small town…

…The Importance of Female Characters in Hamlet In the time of Hamlet, men were the dominant sex. Women of this period were usuallysubject to whatever faults men could place on them instead of themselves. With Shakespeare being a man of this time…

…the epicenter of his rage. His wife, the sea nymph Amphitrite, and his son, Triton, lived with him in his underworld kingdom. Triton was half man, half fish, and rode a sea monster with his conch shell horn. Athene was often pitted against Poseidon in the myths…

…the waves. If he plunged his trident into the ocean floor, earthquakes rolled out from the epicenter of his rage. His wife, the sea nymph Amphitrite, and his son, Triton, lived with him in his underworld kingdom. Triton was half man, half fish, and rode a sea…

…to human problems.” In this story, Cranes shows the theme of man’s struggle versus nature’s indifference the symbolism of water, wildlife, and wind. Indeed, water symbolizes nature's lack of concern toward man. Despite the tired men's daring struggle…

…was a larger than life man, 2/3 god, 1/3 man he roamed the earth looking for an equal. Never finding one, he landed in Uruk. It is implied that he killed the men and raped the women. The people of the city implored the Gods to send down an equal to Gilgamesh…

…that the its beauty soothed him. Starbuck spent much of his life on the ocean as well and enjoyed its adventures and beauty. Starbuck even respected the sea inhabitants and he revealed this reverence when he declared, "I will have no man in my boat... who…

…About the poem Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the story of the Romantic archetype, the Wanderer, the man with the mark of Cain, doomed to walk the earth alone and alienated from all others. What is presented to the reader is a theme…