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- 71: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Conflicting Desires within a Doctrine
- ... is having a very big identity crisis, from being a God fearing Catholic to a very hormonal teenager. As Stephen sits at the "adults" dinner table for the first time, his father, Mr. Casey and Dante are fighting about religion and politics in Ireland. As they are arguing, Stephen's train of thought leads him to think about Eileen. Eileen Vance was the little girl that Stephen wanted to marry when ...
- 72: J Alfred Prufrock
- ... the life of a Victorian man. T.S. Eliot shows us, in an ironic monologue, how the reality of age and social position paralyzes his character with fear. The poem opens with six lines from Dantes Infernio. This particular stanza explains that the speaker is in hell and the message can only be told to someone else in hell. The speaker tells us that it is OK for the listener ...
- 73: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions to Classical Mythology
- ... About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I felt sorry and mean. Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri. (Joyce 246) Life poses riddles at every turn. Stephen roams the labyrinth searching his mind for answers (Gorman 204). The only way out seems to be to soar above the narrow confines of the ...
- 74: The Count of Monte Cristo
- ... wants political power, and one is simply greedy and lacks all morals. In 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 ...
- 75: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Conflicting Desires within a Doctrine
- ... is having a very big identity crisis, from being a God fearing Catholic to a very hormonal teenager. As Stephen sits at the "adults" dinner table for the first time, his father, Mr. Casey and Dante are fighting about religion and politics in Ireland. As they are arguing, Stephen's train of thought leads him to think about Eileen. Eileen Vance was the little girl that Stephen wanted to marry when ...
- 76: Jane Eyre
- ... committed to finding and rejoicing with his love: You tiny creature, it is your professor who seeks you now. It is I, who must love you entirely. For you have become my companion and confi- dante and you must have me the same.9 Resembling Jane Eyre who also stayed committed to Rochester during her stay at Thornfield, both characters pursue their personal goal to fulfill their need and want for ...
- 77: Education Of The Middle Ages
- ... educators found their models of literary style in the classics. The Renaissance was a particularly powerful force in Italy, most notably in art, literature, and architecture. In literature, the works of such Italian writers as Dante Aleghieri, Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio became especially important (Renaissance 228-229). Humanist educators designed teaching methods to prepare well-rounded, liberally educated persons. Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus was particularly influential. Erasmus believed that understanding and ...
- 78: Jean Toomer
- ... universities of Wisconsin or New York gave me what I wanted, so I quit them." It was in Chicago that Toomer began to broaden his interest in literature. Although evidence shows that, in addition to Dante's Inferno , Toomer was affected by Herman Melville's Moby Dick to such a degree that he actually compared himself to Ishmael by having "mentally turned failure to triumph." One of the most prominent literary ...
- 79: Levi
- ... time, and how long it will remain in our memories. For further reading: Understanding Primo Levi by Nicholas Patruno (1995); At an Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's War Against Oblivion by Anthony Rudolf (1990); A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz by Risa Sodi (1990); Conversations with Primo Levi by Ferdinando Camon (1989) Selected works: SE QUESTO Θ UN UOMO, 1947 - If This is a Man / Survival in Auschwitz ...
- 80: Open Arms
- ... at, the convenient symbol of a group of serious people who were all guilty of the same idolatry and could be dismissed with the same scorn. Lord Acton had said that she was greater than Dante; Herbert Spencer exempted her novels, as if they were not novels, when he banned all fiction from the London Library. She was the pride and paragon of her sex. Moreover, her private record was not ...
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