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    When Walton entered the room where Victor was resting, and Walton demanded to the creature to regret everything that he did to Victor, but the creature knew his actions. According to the creature, he said, "Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse? Think ye that the groans of Clerval were music to my ears? My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture, such…

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    and they decide to kill him by a gun. Though ready to shoot, they were stopped as there were soldiers with a stretcher ready to take him. The agreement of Paul was a more preferred choice of allowing the recruit to die rather than to suffer from the agony of…

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    I still feel nauseous. My eyes are burning with acidic tears and my growling stomach has been emptied constantly. Even when I close my eyes, all I see is red. June 3, 1916 Dear Karl, I took a leave and am visiting mother and father. They were so happy to see me as their furious looks were betrayed by crooked smiles and glossy eyes. It is relaxing at home except for the fact that I couldn’t truly be rid of stress. Anyway…

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    man is a conflict between Watson himself and the Baskervilles’ neighbor, Stapleton. By the end of the story, Watson and Sherlock deduce that the Baskervilles’ companion and dear neighbor, Jack Stapleton, is controlling the devilish hound that murders the Baskerville descendants. Though there is never a real confrontation between Watson and Stapleton, conflict still stands between the two. The text states, “’Where is this…

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    “Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.” The mariner is speaking to the wedding guest as he must do for the rest of eternity. He must spread the word that God does not favor one life over another since he made everybody. The final resolution to his…

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    Ever since then, it established that the more melanin you have, the more barbaric you were considered. More than a million of men and women were kidnapped from Africa, and sold by white men, to work without pay. Most people disregard the pain and agony they felt, but there were some who took a stand against it. There were many people who wanted to free the slaves, such as white male abolitionist, female abolitionist, and the slaves themselves. Some of the people that went against slavery, were…

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    slowly ran out. By the end of the play these characters returned to their original emotional states, Romeo having no hope for the future and Juliet feeling there is no more love in the world. Romeo, the son of Montague,enters the play in distress and agony over his unrequited love, Rosaline. After he is reminded by Benvolio of his amazing traits such as; his…

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    miserable marriage. ... [And] when I thought that I had prepared only my own death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim” (Shelley, 1818, p. 178). This statement shocks and corrects the reader’s perception that Victor would die, but rather, someone else dear to him. This advanced foreshadowing serves to intensify the suspense. This exclamation, however, leads the reader to question Frankenstein’s priorities. Perhaps, if Victor hadn’t been so self absorbed in his thinking, he would have…

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    incident. The world becomes meaningless and everything does not matter to her. Under the effect of the painful event, she loses herself, her character. She becomes something like a robot, a non-living thing which has no feelings. She might have lost a dear one giving her no purpose of living. Hence, this explains her dramatic change in her…

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    with agony the no longer bride is consumed in wondering why. Two isolated lovers dwelling on what used to be and should have been are not alone is there journey of heartbreak. . An unknown Anglo-Saxon scop wrote “The Wife’s Lament”, that tells of two lovers torn apart by false accusations, like the split lovers above. During the first section the wife tells of "sorrow" (1) she is currently feeling. She sets out "voyaging"(2) lonely and vulnerable seeking for something that must be very dear to…

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