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    What Is Gatsby's Downfall

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    Gatsby was never a man of lucky that to have a soul mate in his life to run his future dream lover that seems like a heavenly life on earth. However‚ Gatsby was active in his all dream comes true‚ and he was working and struggling his fate on the way of up and life. Gatsby was the lucky and successful person in the world and he rich all his dream house‚ cars‚ place where he wants to live. So‚ Gatsby was failed in blind love with Daisy‚ but Daisy was married to Tom before she meets Gatsby. Sometimes

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    In tragic plays‚ the male characters are often complex; brave‚ courageous‚ noble‚ proud and ambitious but with major personality flaws. It is with these moral failings such as cowardice‚ weakness or greed the characters are forced to push harder to seek power and control and pursue a determination without keeping their behaviors in check. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ the Scottish General Macbeth‚ also known as the Thane of Cawdor‚ is a valiant and courageous soldier who desires to become the

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    pg. 101: Explanation of Hamlet’s Mystery by Ernest Jones Much as he hates him‚ he can never denounce him with the ardent indignation that boils straight from his blood when he reproaches his mother‚ for the more vigorously he denounces his uncle the more powerfully does he stimulate to activity his own unconscious and "repressed" complexes. He is there- fore in a dilemma between on the one hand allowing his natural detestation of his uncle to have free play‚ a consum- mation which would

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    Darius Davis January 15‚ 2008 World Literature-3rd Instructor-Fitzgerald Things Fall Apart In society‚ many people‚ if not all‚ have had their share in downfall. Accomplishments have to be made first in order to fall. An individual can accomplish so much‚ and then lose it all in a heartbeat. In the novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ there is a character by the name of Okonkwo who had accomplished many things in his life. What happens when things turn bad? Does an individual contribute to things

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    Hamlet’s Soliloquies Reveal His Personality "To be or not to be—that is the question (Hamlet‚ III‚ i‚ 64)" The previous quotation is the opening line from Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy in which he is contemplating suicide as an end to all of his adversities. "Hamlet’s world is bleak and cold because almost no one and nothing can be trusted ("Folger Shakespeare Library")." Hamlet allows his words to exhibit his emotions through the soliloquies in the play. While dealing with the sudden loss

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    The Downfall Of Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne was a descendant of Puritan immigrants who dedicated his life to writing. It was through his short story "Young Goodman Brown" that Hawthorne uses it to explain Young Goodman Brown ’s excessive pride. This excessive pride interferes with the relationship of his wife Faith and the community‚ which ultimately causes Young Goodman Brown ’s downfall. "Young Goodman Brown" sets up his journey that his wife asks him to "pr ’y thee‚ put off your

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    for the ultimate downfall of Macbeth. Pressley says‚ “The most striking feature of Shakespeare is his command of language.” In the end‚ the only person that can be blamed for Macbeth’s death is Macbeth. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the three reasons why Macbeth is responsible for his own downfall are‚ it was his choice‚ he was trying to cover his tracks‚ and he thought he was invincible. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the first reason why Macbeth is responsible for his own downfall is that it was ultimately

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    Macbeth’s love for Lady Macbeth‚ in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth‚ caused Macbeth to feel the need to prove his manhood‚ which eventually lead to his downfall. Macbeth was not secure in his manhood‚ so he felt the need to prove himself to Lady Macbeth. After he proved he was a man by killing Duncan‚ and he felt he had a lot of power to do whatever he wanted. Macbeth became desensitized between all the killing and the hype of being the King. In the beginning of the play Macbeth showed

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    CAUSES OF THE DOWNFALL OF MUSLIM EMPIRE The Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent in the time of Aurangzeb Alamgir‚ but it collapsed with dramatic suddenness within a few decades after his death. The Mughal Empire owes its decline and ultimate downfall to a combination of factors; firstly Aurangzeb’s religious policy is regarded as a cause for the decline of the Mughal Empire as it led to disunity among the people. Although the policy did lead to weakening of the empire but the major cause of

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    Argument #3 Paragraph #3: Macbeth will now do anything to survive and avoid fate‚ as it has been easier for him to commit immoral deeds. He has murdered many to achieve his standing as king all the while losing sight of right and wrong. He has become twisted and evil which is identified throughout the play. He loses his sense of what’s true and what’s false heavily relying on the witches prophesies‚ as they state that no man bore of woman could kill Macbeth. At this point it seems as if overconfidence

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