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Antigone and Oedipus as Tragic Figures Literature Essay
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Oedipus is unable to exercise free will because his fate has been determined.  In contrast, it is exactly Antigone’s ability to exercise the free will that precipitates the tragic occurrences.  By making this the case, Anouilh reflects the often tragic events realized in recent history by those at the mercy of great power who have dared to exercise free will. 
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The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien Literature Essay
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This story vividly depicts inner state of the characters during wartime and their living essentials such as fear, kindness, love, and uncertainty. These things are so important for them as ammunition during wartime, because they help the main heroes to overcome depression and difficulties they face with.
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The Autobiography of an ExColored Man by James Weldon Johnson Literature Book Report/Review
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The protagonist of the fictional story, the Ex-Colored Man, is given the ultimate choice in the story to either embrace his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime or to live indistinctly as an average middle-class white man.
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Satire in Jonathan Swift's Poems Literature Book Report/Review
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A detailed analysis of the literary career of Jonathan Swift makes his mastery of the genre of satire very explicit. These poems have been illustrative of the satirical merit of the poet. The critics of Swift have always been in praise for the prominence of the satire of Swift. It is most significant to note satire in Swift was the most favorite tool in the hands of the artist.
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado Literature Literature review
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In Edger Allan Poe's short story The Cask Of Amontillado, although it is only three pages long, we can see a miniature all the elements that Edger Allan Poe repeatedly uses in all of the stories and poems. His themes are almost a perfect precursor of all of the main themes and preoccupations of the 20th century, and his techniques of mood and psychological extraction presages.
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Textual Analysis of Albert Einsteins Why Socialism Literature Essay
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Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review in May 1949 Albert Einstein’s essay “Why Socialism?” presents a set of social and political claims. The major argument of the article concerns the fact that a specific combination of personal and social strivings determines the degree of an individual inner equilibrium and his integration into society.
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Recognizing Ourselves in The Common Man and Literature Essay
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The character of the Common Man serves many purposes. He is a narrator, actor, and commentator, explaining the historical context and setting the scene. By standing outside the action, then taking up roles within it, he states what the author believes; that no matter how ordinary or insignificant he may seem, his involvement is unavoidable. 
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Ralph Ellisons Battle Royal Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the story, however, has survived and continues to be read with interest, not just by African-Americans or Americans but by numerous racial groups. As a foreigner to whom this story has supposedly no historical or cultural interest, it had deeply personal meaning because its focus was not the plight of an African American male.
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The Stereotypical Image of a Woman in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four Literature Book Report/Review
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Julia is one of the key characters in 1984. It stands for the opposite of a "brotherly", anti-sexual, entirely repressed society. At first "sight", or if you read superficially, Julia would seem like a very lighthearted person, a woman who goes with the flow and just cares about having fun and fulfilling her own sexual desires
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Change and Transformation in the Metamorphosis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the family of Franz’s father belongs to a poor family while his mother from a well-to-do family. His father sets up dry goods in a store to sell for a living while his mother is the daughter of well to do merchant of clothes and brewery. He had 2 brothers who died that affected him so much, but he was blessed with sisters.
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Love and romance in The Great Gatsby Literature Book Report/Review
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Thesis. Jay Gatsby idealizes romance because it reminds him youth, his true feelings free from cupidity and greediness. Love to Daisy helps him to recreate his past and symbolizes realization of his secret dreams. Love of Daisy is the only thing he cannot possess, for this reason it becomes so desirable and attractive.
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The Prince Hamlet Literature Essay
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Hamlet was indeed skillful, he didn’t work when he wasn’t properly equipped. It is then very important for Hamlet to be prepared for whatever task he has to work for. He works independently, however, it should be within the conditioning position. He must take courses in music for him to realize that he has the talent.
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Mamas Heritage: The Gift of Her Beliefs Literature Essay
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Dee’s were a façade, an accessory to her image and with her, the useful everyday things and their true meaning would lose their value eventually.  She was too materialistic to appreciate the importance of the items.  Mama resolved that conflict by putting her beliefs into practice and took the right and just course of action.   
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Motivation in the Workplace Literature Essay
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Managers are interested in increasing the productivity of employees and they are searching for ways to do so. Since the start of the industrialization process managers are searching for ways that can help employees produce more. Initially, the focus was on the physical work of the employees but with the passage of time management started to focus on the other factors as well.
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Legal Highs - Legislation Issues and Analysis Literature Essay
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Legal highs are “substances which produce the same, or similar effects, to drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, but are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act” [Talk to Frank]. However, this is a misnomer because the word legal does not mean that it is sanctioned by the government and therefore safe to use. 
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The Maturation of Emma in Jane Austen's Emma Literature Book Report/Review
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Emma’s childlike attitudes and behaviours are the products of her upbringing and situation in life. Growing up without a mother, Emma has no boundaries and accountability. The only person who could provide that authority, Mrs. Weston, is so mild that she hardly restrained Emma.
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Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that there is no direct reference to A Doll’s House in the obituary material. In the Wikipedia entry, only one statement directly refers to the play. According to the Britannica article on Henrik Ibsen, the “proper voice” of the Norwegian playwright came with the writing of A Doll’s House in 1879.
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Comparing the Characters of Achilles and Agamemnon Literature Essay
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Honor and glory take precedence over all other virtues--the characters' disposition dictates that even death is inconsequential as compared to those. The story begins in the midst of a war between the Achaians (Greeks) and Trojans. The tale's main character is Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors.
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Jack Londons To Build a Fire Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that not heeding the advice of experienced men and above all underestimating the extreme forces of nature and a lone man’s vulnerability in the face of the Alaskan winter, the traveler’s bravado costs him his life. The traveler checks himself from panicking and running around like a headless chicken.
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Water for Gotham: a history by Gerard T. Koeppel Literature Essay
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The history of water deficiency in New York City has been systematically researched, documented and presented - and most of all, the dry nature of the topic never bothers the reader.
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Literature Book Report/Review
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The occasion that serves as a framing device for her discourse has the speaker honoring a request to address the graduating class of a women's college in 1928.  For the occasion, the author in her personae as "Mary Seton" has been asked to speak on the topic of "women and fiction". Finding the topic deceptively simple, she muses on its meaning.
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Kazuo Ishiguro and Charles Dickens Literature Book Report/Review
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Ishiguro’s main protagonist, Stevens, in The Remains Of the Day speaks in the first person narrative because he wants to present directly the thoughts and stream of consciousness effectively to the readers.
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Iago, in William Shakespeare's Othello, as a Devil(Satanic) Figure Literature Literature review
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Near the end of the play, Iago retreats into himself as he is threatened and damned by those who have been left alive. It is almost as if his mission has been accomplished and so he has little care for what happens to his physical body. This is embodied within his promise to “never speak a word” from that point on in his life.
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Comparison of Mother Jones and the Beat within Magazines Literature Essay
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I was surprised to read real, well-constructed thoughts from the inside of the minds of kids from the ‘hood that landed in jail. The Beat gives a voice to those whom many would choose to ignore and the insights offered regarding the adults in charge of these young people reveal a well-founded skepticism.
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Literature Book Report/Review
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Stephanie who is in a grave need for money opens up talks with a close relative Vinnie for employment in his bail bonds industry, conversely Stephanie has no certification at all, but still while carrying out her duties, she land Joe Morelli as the first client.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Literature Essay
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Tracy Kidder, known best for his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Soul of a New Machine", is a former servant of the US Army and holds a degree in MFA from University of Iowa. He has been a noted writer among the critics right from his first book, "The Road to Yuba City".
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Mans Laws vs Gods Laws in Antigone by Sophocles Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in the face of strict laws developed by her uncle, Creon, Antigone feels morally obliged to bury her dead brother according to God’s laws. Antigone is convinced that she has to follow God’s laws and care for her brother's body. According to the laws of the state, everyone who obeys them is condemned to death.
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Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream Literature Essay
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A much admired production of the time, in which Shakespeare, as usual, has shown the uncanny ability of writing the plays with absolute awareness of social, cultural and mainly political pulse of the country. Hermia and Helena, the childhood friends, have a sisterly bond till they grow up and fall in love.
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Jane Eyre by Ch. Bronte Literature Essay
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In the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë introduces readers to Jane, its narrator and protagonist, on a ‘drear November day’, which Jane describes as a ‘leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning’, where ‘the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating’.
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The Learning Organisation by Ernest Costas Literature Book Report/Review
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Costas’ article is a part-eclectic, part-inferential abstract on the learning organization. Thus, he has not only indicated his sympathies with the academics and theorists whose submissions and investigations he sets out in this article but has also culled from various authors presumably to corroborate and complement the summary of his gleanings from the academics and the theorists.
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Book Review. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Literature Book Report/Review
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Set mainly in Kerala, India, in the 1960s, "The God of Small Things" is about two children, the two-egg twins Estha (brother) and Rahel (sister), and the shocking consequences of the death-by-drowning of Sophie Mol, their English cousin.
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Language learning for work and life Literature Essay
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The author states that the instruction material should be presented in terms that are not just familiar to the student but which allow him/her to constructively utilize their pre-existing linguistic tools and knowledge for the more effective absorption of the new. The primary obstacle to effective L2 learning is learner psychology.
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Franz Kafkas A Hunger Artist Literature Assignment
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The author states that the protagonist, locked in a cage, is a professional self-starver, capable of fasting for periods longer than forty days. While the protagonist views his capacity for self-starvation as an art which he is trying to perfect, an achievement, the townsfolk do not believe that he is truly fasting or see him as a `freak'.
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Dover Beach is also representative of the patriarchal ideology of the era. The poem is addressed to the poet’s partner. It is said that the poem was written during their honeymoon at Dover Beach. However, the poem does not inculcate the thoughts or expressions, ideas or emotions of the partner.
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Leo Tolstoy as one of the great misogynist Literature Book Report/Review
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In this article, I will focus on the argument about Tolstoy's alleged misogyny through his work Anna Karenina. After having read the novel Anna Karenina, I have yet to agree that Tolstoy is a misogynist because of certain elements in the novel that makes me think otherwise.
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Africans in Joseph Conrads Heart Of Darkness Literature Book Report/Review
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His narrative tries to explain why he thinks Africa is dark. The darkness alludes to the skin color of the Africans, the dark mysteries of the natives, the land and the unknown. This essay explores how the Africans were depicted in the short novel, Heart of Darkness.
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Humor in Social Critique on Sexual Morality in The Heptameron Literature Book Report/Review
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She created ten storytellers to narrate her tales over eight days. The tales provided comic relief, laughter, and witty reprieve while commenting upon the sexual morality, or moral quality of her characters. Navarre used humor to construct and comment upon the different comical, moral situations that perplex humans.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Alice most of the time forgot that she was merely a visitor in Wonderland for she would get exasperated when things there did not conform to her expectations, according to her own values and knowledge. More significantly, she did not realize that even her innocent ways of giving advice.
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Devil's Highway Literature Book Report/Review
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A man needs minimum of two gallons of water to survive here for a day. Luis Alberto Urrea tells a real story of 26 people who get lost in this track while attempting to cross over to the United States illegally in May 2001. Only twelve of them survived. The story is painful and raises issues of life in poverty and human rights.
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Faulkner on the Basis of the Characters in A Rose for Emily Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that this widely acclaimed story which takes place in Jefferson, Faulkner’s fictional city, is noted for its characterization, and it is possible to diagnose Faulkner on the basis of the characters in “A Rose for Emily.” The short story has special meanings, William Faulkner, with regard to the behavior of the men versus the women.
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Comparing two plays for a Theatre Class Literature Book Report/Review
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During the time in which they engage in recreation took put society frowned winning women asserting themselves? Women were hypothetical to play a role in which they support their husbands, took the mind of their children, and complete sure the whole thing was ideal around the house. Work, government, and decisions were absent to the males.
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Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Literature Essay
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Not only is Bayardo a typical male of the time, but also the twin brothers of Angela; who just to live up to the standard social order, were ready to kill Santiago for having disgraced their sister. The women were bounded on all sides by traditions and were expected only to get married and have families.
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Lan Caos Monkey Bridge: A Vietnamese Literature Essay
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When she came to the supposed land of milk and honey, she finds that her daughter although somewhat lonesome is unexpectedly looking forward to a life that is completely alien to her.
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The Immutable Laws of Being Good to Great Literature Essay
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Collins illustrates this idea by citing that good companies start to develop into great ones once they face reality, no matter how brutal. As they say, reality bites. But once you’re bit, don’t let it prevent you from pushing forward. Again, face it. Confront it. Then with resolute character, move on and act.
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Alex Espinoza Still Water Saints Literature Book Report/Review
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Shawn refers to her as the scab, and does not like her. She has a little child, who is likely mistreated and under-cared. Other minor characters in the chapter include Bill and Karen, Shawn's managers, and Mark the new rookie employee.From Shawn's viewpoint Beady's new girlfriend starts to make a nuisance of herself.
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Beatrice Joanne - The Changeling Literature Book Report/Review
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The author of the paper is of the view that Aristotle’s words, as quoted from Generation of Animals, bring to mind, comparable proximity to the definition of the word ‘changeling’. As is largely understood, a changeling is a person who; by a twist of fate, or nature, or personality flaw; becomes the subject of either pity or disgust.
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The Call of Solitude Literature Assignment
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The author states that with Ahab's demise end the related pre-Darwinian beliefs that man, through his rational faculties, sits atop and controls the great chain of being; that civilized man is fundamentally different from and superior to uncivilized men and wild beasts; and that transformations in man and nature proceed according to design.
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Literature Essay
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Generally speaking, Giusеppе di Lаmpеdusа turnеd 58 whеn hе stаrtеd to writе Thе Lеopаrd, though hе hаd hаd it in his mind for 25 yеаrs.  Thе аuthor diеd аt thе аgе of 60, soon аftеr finishing Thе Lеopаrd, so hе did not еvеn hаvе а chаncе to sее it is publishеd аnd did not tаstе thе flаvor of fаmе.
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Emile Zolas Germinal Literature Essay
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Zola’s novel describes the working conditions of the coal miners but it would be reducing to consider Germinal only as a portrayal of a social class. While reading Germinal, it may seem natural to ask ourselves if the way the miners are described reinforces or challenges the assumptions about the working class.
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Inferno and Odyssey: a War Between the Subtler Shades of Vice and Virtue Literature Essay
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Virgil guides Dante through the nine concentric circles of Hell., diving into deeper and graver sins, unrepentant, and culminating into absolute evil, as represented by Satan. The journey begins from the Dark wood, and into the Limbo. It is more of a pagan, unbaptized and a coarse yet virtuous crowd like Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan.
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