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…that Pip still thinks of Magwitch like a mechanical object and also Pip says it not from his heart but like a mechanical object himself which has no feeling. "'No' said I almost mechanically, in spite of my utmost efforts; 'not tomorrow' " Magwitch is deluded…

…" and hopes of the past, anyone expecting a tale of stark modern life from Sleepless in Seattle has walked into the wrong room and has picked the wrong movie. This is a dreamy, romantic fantasy whose mood falls somewhere between magic and reality, definitely…

…The Emperor Julius Caesar is perhaps most famous as the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. His rise from a humble birth as a peasant boy to Emperor is a tale of bravery, adversity and ultimately triumph through faith. Julius Caesar was born…

…"The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding tells the classic tale of plane wrecked English school boys decent to savagery on a desert island. Purposely stranded on an island the story shows how, when isolated, the weaknesses of human nature will emerge…

…Forbidden Love The short story “Dhowli,” is a tragic tale about a woman who puts her trust and faith into a love that is forbidden, and how she is ultimately betrayed by that love. The story demonstrates how some of the choices that she made, and her…

…put forward by different societies may never be reconciled, since nobody comes back to tell of an afterlife. Robert Frost successfully delineates this process in his poem, "Out, Out -" as he describes how the boy in the poem experiences the first stage…

…W.B.Yeats and Leda and the Swan Given the odd tales brought to us by Greek mythology, one could very well imagine the stories having been unearthed from some antique tabloid magazine. In the case of Leda, subject of W. B. Yeats' poem "Leda…

…Augustine’s Confession Augustine on his own view stole the fruit for the mere enjoyment of the sin and theft that the stealing involved. He says in (II,4) “Behold, now let my heart tell you what it looked for there, that I should be evil…

…suicide. Edgar comes upon him and listens to his sad tale of misjudging his son. Gloucester does not know who he has met, only that this person will help him to commit suicide. Edgar continues to conceal his identity and even tricks Gloucester into thinking he…

…to a bar to celebrate the birth of his daughter. On the way a friend informs him of his wife’s, Mama Elena, affair with a man having Negro blood in his veins. The terrible news brings on a heart attack killing him instantly. In the book, this information…