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    strongest emotions known and can redefine who you are. It has the power to make us curl up in a corner, hiding, stopping us from going after the things we want. Its voracious, can consume us, leaving no room for joy or love. Fear can become our personal demon that can replace light with darkness. The claws of Fear can imprison a person for life. Hope on…

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    Tempetation- In The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, there are two demons, Wormtail and Screwtape, who are trying to corrupt a human, who they call Patient, from straying towards the words of God and the acts Christianity. Screwtape, the elder demon, tells Wormtail that he realizes how enslaved humans are to be of the ordinary. To fit in. Temptation is what every human has. The temptation to go against God and Christianity. “Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than…

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    “The tall man in the blue suit” is the classic identifier of “The Daemon Lover”. He is the sinister and malicious symbol that appears and disappears throughout Shirley Jackson’s collection of stories, “The Lottery and Other Stories”, leaving anyone surrounding him uncomfortable and paranoid. Despite this he always remains a minor character in her writings. Until he is made note of in Shirley Jackson’s story “The Daemon Lover” when the consistent pattern of him vanishing proceeds with him as the…

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    this several times as Annabel’s lover repeatedly blames them. The angels don’t exactly defeat the two lovers by killing Annabel. Annabel’s lover states how their bond is too strong for anyone to destroy it even if Annabel is dead and that can be an allusion to the religious readers. The angels and demons were both against the two lover’s relationship; so in that case, there is nothing representing a holy or an evil…

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    Sonnet 144 Analysis

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    as the confusion of the ‘better angel’ with the evil spirit that reflects in the rhymes and internal construction of the third quatrain. The speaker confesses his suspicions with hesitation on the fact that there could be a love affair between his lovers: And whether that my angel turned fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell, But being both from me, both to each friend I guess one angel in another’s hell. (l.9-12) It is clear that visually the word ‘fiend’ and ‘friend’ in the rhymes…

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    Krishna’s Journey: Divine Love, Epic Battles, and Impressive Imagery The story of the birth of Lord Krishna begins in the town of Mathura located in Northern India. The ruler of Mathura was King Kamsa who was also the brother of Devaki, Krishna’s mother. Krishna was born in prison to loving parents Devaki and Vasudeva. At the time, Krishna’s life was in danger because the tyrant Kamsa was pursuing to kill him. After Devaki was married off to her husband, Kamsa began escorting the couple home in…

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    In a fit of righteous rage, and with her strength and magic, she vanquished the monster swiftly and viciously. The battle ended without a single blow struck against the Princess; the demon had no will to fight. Whether out of cowardice or weakness, the beast refused to defend itself, but Luna cared little for its reasons. She watched in satisfaction as it hemorrhaged life fluids onto the ground. Silence pervaded the air until the creature…

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    Kubla Khan Poem Analysis

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    Coleridge's Kubla Khan can be called a dream on a paper and rightfully so, for it is so hauntingly beautiful and so accurately composed as only a fragment of a vivid but forgotten dream can be.A major section of the poem is written in iambic tetrameter, with the words flowing as smooth as an incantation from the mouth of a sorcerer. It is, along with Rime of The Ancient Mariner, one of Coleridge's most famous and enduring pieces of work. The first three stanzas, penned in rich language, possess…

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    region where I live too. His name is Federico Bebber and his digital artworks are obscure and someway sensual, a must see for you lovers of the finest dark art. Federico's inspiration comes from b-movies, horror movies, H.R. Giger and Dave McKean but he's also inspired by dramatic and difficult moments he had in his life. He uses his art as a way to exorcise his demons and well ... he's doing a great job. Her pictures…

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    true. The child’s blossoming evil nature made that much harsher by the mother’s adultery against a man already so close to Satan himself, and with a man so desired by Satan’s temptation had made her a perfect host for the legion. Legion the host of demons that was last heard of running hundreds of pigs straight into the ocean had returned through the child of a minister. The creature which we can no longer call a child turned to her blood father and told him in a voice like a crowd’s, “You are…

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