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The General Prologue
Summary
In April the pleasant showers of rain had pierced the drought of March to the very root and bathed every plant with life-giving moisture. The...
Humanism as the specific system of views had been forming for centuries, absorbing various approaches to the issue of man. As a rule, humanism is defined in terms of several e...
“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
(Matthew 10:28)
Dante...
The Metamorphosis
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that one morning awoke turned into a gigantic insect. It is no dream
but...
Consider this quote from William Manchester (A World Lit Only By Fire):
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Aristotle’s tragic hero must possess these four characteristics: goodness; superiority; a tragic flaw; and the realisation of both that flaw and the inevitable downfall (Lit...
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The Renaissance was, essentially, a revival or rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It followed the Middle...
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Ethnic Tourism: Essence of India
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"She does not resist. All she does is avert herself: avert her lips, avert her eyes... Not rape, not quite that, but undesired nevertheless, undesired to the core (Coetzee, 25...
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For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation).
The American actor Edwin Booth as Hamlet, c. 1870...