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    fun. But that group is what started it all. Gene the main character standing at 5 foot 8 ½ inches tall and weighing 140 pounds. He’s very intelligent who's not the best athlete, but second best athlete in Devon. But he had a internal conflict of jealousy with Finny. “This time he wasn't going to get away with it.”(27). Gene always wants Finny to get in trouble because Finny is able to talk his way out of any situation that Finny finds himself in. Finny being another main character standing…

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    (Butler 221). Butler is criticizing the theme of masculinity by saying that masculinity is about hair and stature and that’s why as a parrot the narrator wants to make himself as big as possible although a bird is only so big in contrast to a man. He jealousy is the main form he shows his insecurities. When his wife mentioned her coworker three times he, “went to his house…went up…crawled on along...” a tree that led up to a bedroom widow (Butler 221-222) which shows his extreme actions he would…

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    and reality Destructive forces are societal pressures that cause destruction in the lives of humans when they choose to give in to them. Hysteria, jealousy, and greed are three of these destructive forces that have an effect on the lives of people every day. Hysteria is characterized by irrational actions that are produced by fear. Jealousy is hatred for someone else because of something that they possess that you cannot or do not have. Lastly, greed is the constant feeling of the need…

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    portrays characters driven by jealousy to make hasty decisions. The play Othello is known for its themes that revolve around love, race, social classes and revenge. It is not Othello’s jealousy, but his credulity that is the prime cause of the tragedy. Othello who is known as a loving and carrying husband to Desdemona fell in trap of Iago’s plotting. Iago is known as a scheming and angry character who seeks to satisfy himself through revenge. It is not Othello‘s jealousy, but his credulity that…

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    what all the other children living on Venus can’t, the sun. Because Margot is the only one who remembers the light and joy the sun brings, the children grow jealous of her. One lesson that this story suggests is that if you get caught up in your own jealousy, you can end up hurting others. In the beginning, the details in the story show the children’s immense covetousness toward Margot. In one scene, Bradbury describes how the children often dream about the sun. The text says, “they were…

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    for Othello it is the gradual change from a good natured man into a bad with the help of Iago’s wicked ways. The deceitful relationship between Iago and Othello shows us how we as humans easily tend to let something as small as single emotion of jealousy provoke such an overblown and unreasonable revenge due to the deeper complexity of human nature. If worrying so…

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    she was so obsessed with the sun. She remembered how the sun looked and felt, while the other kids didn’t. She would remind them of this when she would talk only about the sun, which seemed to make the kids jealous. The message of the story is that jealousy can…

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    Othello, the Moor of Venice composed by William Shakespeare is a tragic exploration of fundamental concerns to humanity such as love, jealousy and ambition. These were all influential aspects of society during the Elizabethan era and have remained applicable to a variety of audiences throughout the centuries. It was these overarching concerns which lead to the capacity of Shakespeare in launching the examination of a multitude of other thematic concerns fundamental to the human condition. Such…

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    Research regarding infidelity has suggested that women and men have different jealousy responses that correspond to different qualities in their relationship. It has been seen that when infidelity occurs in a relationship, men often ask question regarding how sexual the relationship was unlike women who ask questions regarding the emotional part of the relationship. Although research studies have confirmed this idea, criticisms have arisen regarding the nature in which these infidelities were…

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    jealous of her. A very important lesson in the story is that if you let jealousy get to you it will hurt you as well as others. From the beginning, the details show that the kids are in a lot of pain because of their jealousy over Margot. The Sun is the reason why they are painfully jealous of Margot.…

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