... lives. From the pain Romeo suffered from Rosalyn's rejection, to the enchantment of the first scene where the "star-crossed couple" meet. Each installment of the drama invokes a multiplicity of empathy through our own similar experiences. These are mostly considered episodes of love, but there are intermittent portrayals of the jealousy and feelings of malice to which a person subdues because of love. The most memorable of these portrayals is the first scene of Act Three. Love inspires rage in this fight scene in which Mercutio loses his life. Such a scene is an important rendering of how there is a thin line between love and hate; the men have a love for each oth ...

... as ‘Ah!'"(Varley, 1973, p.48) The "gentle human relations are those events that give the basis for the escapades of Genji, but it is the more subtle use of nature that gives us the backdrop for the story (and, incidentally, the basis for a paper). The first way that Murasaki employs nature is in her precise characterizations of the dozens of main and minor players in Genji. From the season in which the character appears to the clothes that they wear to the portion of Genji's palace that they inhabit, without a more than casual appreciation to nature in reading this novel a great chunk of the literary value is lost. "[Murasaki} is not content simply to de ...

... right away that her mother could pass for a white woman. Even though Lorde never fully understands why her mother was so hard on her, I feel that this was one of the main contributors to her knowing and first understanding her outsider status. Lorde looks more like her father, but is never around him much. Her dark color gives rise to her feelings of inadequacy and her mother’s treatment of her made her always feel inferior. Her first memories of herself are those looked at through eyes that enabled her only to see the outer shapes of things. Having such bad eyesight was one of the first instances where she notices her difference from others around her outs ...

... in the Congo, which at least for a good part of the way sticks closely to Conrad's own experience. Typically, however, the adventure is related to a larger view of human affairs. Marlow told the story one evening on a yacht in the Thames estuary as darkness fell, reminding his audience that exploitation of one group by another was not new in history. They were anchored in the river, where ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as lately as Roman times, London's own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous hinterland where the Romans went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over London, while the ships that bore "civilization" to remote parts appeared o ...

... to the Adam and Eve’s “trivial” mistake, eating from the tree of knowledge, which forced them out of Paradise. It will take a further reading of the poem to learn that the crime is simply the cutting of a lock of hair, and not a monumental fall from God’s graces. Pope goes on to pose the questions, “Say what strange motive, Goddess! Could compel/a well-bred Lord to assault a gentle Belle? / O say what stanger cause, yet unexplored, /could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?” (Pope, ll. 7-10). This is an allusion to Adam’s rejection of Eve in Paradise Lost when he laments, “ ‘Out of my sight, thou serpent!R ...

... his job or task was to create man. After creating the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation. In doing so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being. The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a mountain and chains him to the mountain. Every day an eagle comes down and rips him open and eats his insides. During the night Prometheus would recover durin ...

... the spice dill. For instance he talked about being a clown that would laugh at other people “‘I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. ‘Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.’” Finally Jem’s name was used to symbolize his qualities. Jem was like the valuable stone. He was rough on the outside but inside was nice. Jem was not always mature to other people in the beginning but at the end he treated all people like he was an adult. “How he could tell I was feeling bad under my costume I don’t know, but h ...

... prison, Dantes meets Abbe Faria, who lives in an adjoining cell. Their friendship gives him strength, love, and friendship. Through the Abbe, Dante realizes who has wronged him and becomes less naive. He escapes when the Abbe dies, and finds a hidden treasure that the Abbe had told him about. With his newfound riches, Dantes buys the title of “” and resurfaces in society, namely the French aristocracy. He rewards those who were good to him in the past and schemes and plots slow and painful punishments for those who wronged him. Through exacting his revenge, there are underlying subplots of young lovers, innocents, and people seeking redemption who the Count h ...

... that created these tales of a pilgrimmage to Canterbury. The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England was to take place in a relatively short period of time, but this was not because of the success of the Augustinian effort. Indeed, the early years of this mission had an ambivalence which shows in the number of people who hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale conversion of the common people to Christianity at this time. Augustine was not the most diplomatic of men, and managed to antagon ...

... distinct stages of emotion constitute incontestable physical responses towards other characters in the play. In Shakespeare’s version, in the beginning of the story, Hamlet’s character was struggling with the sudden marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius, a month after his father is death. He is disturbed at the speed with which his mother has recovered from mourning her dead husband to marry the new king. He expresses his frustration and confusion during his soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 2 after the new King's announcement to his people. Later he learned that his father’s ghost was sighted. Intuitively, he knew there had to ...