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Voltairs Candide
... the nobles' obsession with lines of lineage and their belief that they are superior to the common man. During the ... and many superstitious beliefs. Voltaire felt that established religion crushed the human spirit and alienated people, and that to be free, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare, it is Macbeth's "Vaulting Ambition" that causes his downfall. Discuss.
... 's vaulting ambition than his belief in the supernatural. However, it is Macbeth's belief in the supernatural that makes him continue on ... that commits the regicide and continues on to the murder of Banquo . Macbeth's downfall is a result of his belief in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
George Patton, General in Spurs Each piece of history which
... . One very important character of General George Patton was his belief that armies should be led. He would never follow his men, ... from the General to his son, George. Many of his beliefs are stated and explained here. He says, "Take calculated risks," ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Pygmalion and Equality
... that the ridicule of the Victorian class system in Shaw 's Pygmalion demonstrates a belief in the equality of all people, a belief that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
A detailed study of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' in relation to the principles of the pastoral convention.
... she cares Blake successfully relays his belief that the state of innocence is far more superior than that of experience which is ... of great trust devoid the Nurse of Experience. The belief that humanity remains innocence until tainted by society is firmly ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The Faithful but Fated Dog, Analysis of Byron's "Darkness"
... the meager were devoured'. The ironic parallel to the Biblical belief that the meek shall inherit the earth is clear. The meek, ... world and society. The Byronic hero is thus molded from that appreciation for rebellion and passion. In Darkness, the faithful ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Brave new World, by Huxley. Portrays a society which is superficially a perfect world
... population. Another of the panaceas for social ills is the belief that everyone would enjoy his or her work because he ... personalities or interpretations about life, Huxley makes us see that life will become meaningless. In comparison to 1984, Brave ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
English Literature - A Man For All Seasons.
... of More and the way More chooses his beliefs and sticks to them. More's strong belief that "When a man takes an oath, he' ... no longer believe the same concepts as More and Bolt. The belief that religion comes before anything else is lost, we now live in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How Lewis Grassic Gibbon uses characters to show the themes of his book "Sunset Song"
... Gibbon's dislike of religion. It was John Guthrie 's beliefs that ruined the marriage and resulted in Jean Guthrie's suicide. ... that". I think that John Guthrie 's strength and hard work revealed the good in John Guthrie as it showed that although his beliefs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Antigone - Analysis of Greek Ideals
... belief that the government was to have no control in matters concerning religious beliefs. In Antigone's eyes, Creon betrayed that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature