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- 951: The Theme of Isolation in Various Literature
- ... three week journey to another post it did not seem feasible so he left home to become a alcoholic. Before Agaguk left he made a decision that he could not take this isolation and the stress from the growing needs of his family. So he left them to fend for themselves and he was going to be a drunk. Quite a concept. In the "Law of the Yukon" by Robert Service ...
- 952: Abbey, and His Fear of Progress
- ... that they can actually enjoy the park without all of the hassles (Abbey 58). Without leaving their cars they will never actually experience the beauty and wonderment of the parks. They will only find the stress and chaos that they sought to leave at home (Abbey 59). There is a minority though, that prefers to be able to get away from the modern world completely, and travel throughout the parks on ...
- 953: The Theory of Property
- ... capitalist production, they will in the long run cause reverberating changes politically, militarily and socially. To Wolf the evolution in populations from propertyless to property-based is a series of starts, stops and jumps. The stress that he places on economics as the driving force in this transition can be studying by examining social pressures due to changing political policies of various societies. It is important to note, however, that no ...
- 954: The Odyssey
- ... Ithaca and warning him about the ambush of the suitors. Athene helped Penelope numerous way also. Athene helped her by comforting her so she would not go into a nervous break down over all her stress, the suitors and Odysseus returning or not. Athene gave Penelope hope of Odysseus returning. Athene even made Penelope appear more beautiful than she really was, because Penelope was actually really ragged. Athene also helped Penelope ...
- 955: The Theme of Father/Son Relationships in Beowulf & The Song of Roland
- ... the essence of the comitatus was, how services were rewarded and great deeds applauded. The entire relationship between Hrothgar and Beowulf is the prime example of the comitatus, and the author was clearly trying to stress that when writing Beowulf. The author of The Song of Roland also clearly had the idea also of commenting on the society of the time by using the father-son relationship as a model. Roland ...
- 956: The School: Postmodernist Ideas
- ... of rejection comes in the story through the death cases. It seems strange why Barthelme uses the notion death in his story, but I think the reason is that this is the best way to stress that every living thing is losing its importance. Hopeless pessimism interweaves with the idea of rejection, and I find them together everywhere, in every death case. For Barthelme, what is lost is unrecoverable. Pessimism, mostly ...
- 957: The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey into Insanity
- ... temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (Gilman 193). These two men -- both doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to accept that she may have a real problem. Throughout the story ...
- 958: Leggatt as an Independent Character in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
- ... felon elude justice" (134). What makes things worse for the captain is that his desire to sate his loneliness transcends his judgment. While he is hiding Leggatt, he puts himself under an enormous amount of stress. He tells the reader how unbearable it is to be separated from his double. The captain needs to have Leggatt in his quarters to make him feel less alienated from others, but at the same ...
- 959: A Comparison of Contemporary and Romance Literature
- ... a shrew, helps a damsel in distress, and saves his dwarf. The main characters in both contemporary and romance literature are interesting people. Those in contemporary literature are realistic and live a life filled with stress, sickness, and depression. Those in romance literature are perfect and live a noble and honorable life.
- 960: The Romanticism Movement
- ... rules and conventions. Romantic writers usually involve one or more of 7 different ideas associated with Romanticism in their writings. These ideas are: a profound love of nature; focus on the self and the individual; stress on emotion and not reason; fascination with the supernatural, mysterious and gothic; yearning for the picturesque, the exotic, and the misty past; deep-rooted idealism; passionate nationalism, or love of country. The stories and poems ...
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