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- 351: Penelope As Moral Agent
- ... it clear to him that he is never coming home and she is therefore obligated to follow his wishes in remarrying, I would interpret this to mean that to Odysseus, fidelity entails considering the suitors' proposal. Foley writes, "Odysseus' parting instructions to Penelope…place the choice to remarry in Penelope's hands" (Foley 99). On this point I would disagree: in his statement in which he tells her that she "marry ...
- 352: Only Yesterday
- ... football games. Also the first beauty pageants were being held. Men had the opportunity to view the first installment of the swimsuit segment of the pageants. Although the swimsuits of the day were much more modest than those of today they still turned a lot of male heads. With the advancement of technology came a revolution of morals. Prior to the 1920's there were distinctive class and family roles firmly ...
- 353: On The Road
- ... Denver is the Promised Land, San Francisco is an even greater "vision", the Nebraska farmlands are like the Nile Valley. Sal envisions the people and places around him in grand terms, but he is quite modest about himself. Mostly, he seems to be almost disbelieving, that he is finally living the adventures of which he dreamed. He pictures himself stumbling into Denver like a prophet, mysterious and ragged from his adventures ...
- 354: Jane Eyre - Struggle For Love
- ... s gate's opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second. The dim room was full of visions."(Bronte,444) By accepting this proposal and going to work as a missionary, Jane would have done right in God's eyes and yet, would still not have been happy. Jane is now called to do what pleases her as a ...
- 355: Jane Eyre - Love
- ... proposes marriage to Jane offering not love, but a place by his side in a missionary post. His offer is the total opposite of Rochester's. Though a difficult decision, Jane does not accept the proposal. Marrying St. John out of love would be the right thing to do in the eyes of God, but it would not make her happy. And it is that love which she seeks that would ...
- 356: Jane Eyre - Fire And Water
- ... Jane and St. John. Jane’s nature is passionate while St. John’s in not. Solomon writes "His ‘ice kisses’ cannot reach her"(Solomon, 74). Bronte again uses water imagery to describe the strange marriage proposal of St. John’s. She compares him with imagery of cold, running water when Jane says "he…has no more a husband’s heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which ...
- 357: Jane Eyre
- ... she must decide whether to answer to his call. By this point in her journey, Jane understands that her search for sympathy can not be realized without real love. She denies St. John's marriage proposal by saying, "I have a woman's heart, but not where you are concerned; for you I only have a comrade's constancy; a fellow-soldier's frankness, fidelity, fraternity. . .nothing more. . ." (390). She knows ...
- 358: In Cold Blood
- ... Clutters, and whoever happened to be at the house and in the way at the time of the murders. The motive for the murders was that the Clutters were rich, even though they were extremely modest about their wealth and fame. Dick came upon the knowledge of the family’s wealth by a prisoner who was celled with Dick and had worked for the Clutters. The prisoner meant no harm in ...
- 359: Honor Killings
- ... s as if Homer is telling us that every human being is both important and significant in his own right. There is no anonimity of one's death in combat. Each combatant, however small or modest in rank, truly matters. You cannot help but feel some sort of emotional and psychological disgust upon reading such passages. Homer constantly reminds us that someone who just moments ago was a glorious and splendid ...
- 360: Hercules
- ... to King Augeas, and without saying anything about Eurystheus, said that he would clean out the stables in one day, if Augeas would give him a tenth of his fine cattle. King Augeas accepted this proposal, thinking it was impossible. Hercules brought Augeas’s son to watch. First, Hercules made 2 openings, one in wall of the cattle-yard where the stables were, and the other, in the wall on the ...
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