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Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy Literature Research Paper
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Agreeing with what Aristotle states, Oedipus’ misfortunes happen because of his own flaws despite the fact that this was not entirely in his control. If the King had not been so judgmental, perhaps he would not have killed his father and maybe he would have avoided this tragedy (Aristotle & Hammond, 2001).
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Afro-American Literature from 1940`s Literature Term Paper
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If this article is contrasted with Brown`s poem, “Old Lem” a clear distinction can be drawn as the stereotypical characters are missing from the text and the focus is primarily on the injustice and ill-treatment which the Negro population had to go through at the hands of the white population.
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Analysis of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Literature Essay
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The driving force behind this belief seems to the anticipated goodness they acquire because of this Lottery. It has the basis of tradition only and is away from reasonable thinking. Even a small child in the town is wildly engaging in the act of killing a human being to keep the tradition blindly.
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Critiquing the Oppression and Persecution Experienced by Women Literature Essay
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Women have been traditionally positioned at the margins of the society and culture of male-dominated environments such as in Arabic, Muslim countries and in Mexico, to name a few. Patriarchal systems in the above said societies and culture have long denied women of having an appropriate role in the nation-building as well as in entering and assuming a public position.
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Three Poems by Langston Hughes Literature Essay
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The first poem is The Negro Mother the second one is Let America Be America Again, and the third poem is Dark Youth of the U.S.A. Perseverance is the prominent subject matter in the three poems. For the poem, The Negro mother, the character describes her days in the “night”. These days are full of suffering, strife to stay alive, and the strife to preserve the coming generation even as it was subject to discrimination.
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Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Literature Literature review
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The poem can, therefore, be interpreted not just as a mother giving advice to the son but also to the general audience. The main theme of the poem is the determination that helps one get through the various conflicts and struggles of life. It is the determination that has enabled the mother not to give up in life despite the fact that life has not been kind to her.
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'Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world' by Roy Porter Literature Essay
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This will involve an analysis of some important elements of the development of Britain and its implications to modern development. The paper will begin by examining how Britain viewed the Enlightenment which made it unique and different from other people in mainland Europe.
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Literature Essay
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The author has created the work within a historical perspective, as the blacks used to be considered the community of workers, laborers, and servicemen, nature of relation and interaction with which could only be erected on the foundations of the traditional master-slave structure. The story observed great criticism since its first publication in 1930.
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Running Out of Music Literature Essay
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This story helps in portraying Lucinda’s character so beautifully as she struggles to find her identity in the midst of the people that she is surrounded by, the way in which she is forced to live and the music that helps her find solace during times of trouble.
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The Omnivoere's Dilemma Review Literature Book Report/Review
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The shift on nutrient conception demonstrates how Americans’ eating behaviour is easily malleable compared to others. Nothing demonstrates this more than the sudden aversion to carbohydrates as principal nourishment which manifested in 2002 as the author points out.
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Similarities in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid Literature Essay
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Though the fathers do everything to protect and prevent their daughters from men who are not worth, they forget that they can never marry their daughters. The girls end up confused about who is worth for them and who is the right person for them to marry. The stories emphasize the effects of resistance of change between parents and children.
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Character Features in A Rose for Emily Literature Essay
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Emily is a bizarre character who trapped herself in a world of delusion after the death of her father and especially after the betrayal by Homer Barron, the man who was supposed to marry her. When Emily got withdrawn from society, the only man who remained in her life was her servant Tobe a black, expressionless man who talked nothing.
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Theme of Fiction as a Positive Force - in Jonathan Safrans Everything Is Illuminated Literature Book Report/Review
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The novel has exhibited the theme of fiction in the better part of the whole novel and the narratives. With just a photograph in hand, Safran Jonathan sets out to look for a woman who according to him may have saved, from the Nazis, his grandfather. The fiction is seen in the manner in which the novel proceeds.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's Literature Essay
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The novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s was published in 1958, but when the movie was produced in 1961, it surpassed the book. It is fascinating to distinguish and/or compare the book Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the film version of it since there are numerous points of differences.
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High Positions of Leadership Literature Essay
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Othello has his own character flaws he was a much better person than Iago. Leaders should be individuals who can be trusted by the whole society. For any individual to gain the respect that they deserve as leaders they must be of good character. Iago has bad character traits and it was appropriate that he was passed over for the post of lieutenant.
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The Protestant Reformation in England Literature Essay
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The Catholic Church in England tried to stem the spread of the new movement by burning the new English Bible Translations and executing the supporters of the Protestant Reformation.  The Reformers responded by sacking monasteries, plundering their possessions and releasing monks and nuns, and encouraging them to marry (Abrams et al, 538).
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Read the book and do the answer below. ( every question should be around 250 words) Literature Research Paper
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Where the unnatural power is of the queen and her court on the natural power of the world where the fairy belongs. Fairy and Lanval are deeply in love with each other. However, in the meanwhile the Queen expresses her love to Lanval as well. “Lanval, I’ve honored you sincerely …what do you say to my proposal” (257-260).
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte Literature Essay
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Madam Shipten sacrifices her own appetite in order to feed Piney. The author in many places reduces the pressure or uneasiness of a situation by maintaining a calm tone all through the story, and the calmness is also depicted in the characters, too, like in the sentence: “Mr. Oakhurst settled himself coolly to the losing game before him”.
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Fixing past is impossible (related to The Great Gatsby and the reltionship between Fitzgerald and his wife) Literature Research Paper
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Many people who dwell in the past always wish they could undo the past and live a better today. Perhaps it is because of the missed opportunities that make them believe the present would have been better or maybe their unfulfilled dreams and lost ambitions.
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A Passage to India Analysis Literature Essay
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‘A Passage to India’ is one of the greatest works produced by E.M. Forster that sheds great light on to the relationship between the Indians and British. The novel was set against the backdrop of the British rule in the Sub-continent. It follows the lives of two women, Mrs. Moore and Adela Quested, who travel to India.
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The Religious Conflicts and Claims: A Prophet for Our Time and Brothers on the Line Literature Research Paper
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Armstrong describes the struggle which existed between Medina and Mecca to be a political and economic struggle, but it resulted in religious conflict and led to the triumph of Muslims of Medina for many years. The author disassociates the secular from the religious conflicts and claims that physical involvement in war and conversion.
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Charles Dickens Hard Times Literature Essay
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Student’s Name Course Name Instructor’s Name Date Charles Dickens’ Hard Times: Argumentative Essay Regardless of the fact that Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times about Hard Times was written over a hundred and fifty years ago, it features compelling arguments on issues that are of relevance nowadays.
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Roald Dahls Villains Literature Research Paper
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Beyond proving to be accessible and engaging to children, his works reinvigorated this genre by making it more accessible and realistic for children to identify with. His penchant for understanding child psychology and composing a complex, intriguing plot contributed to his renown.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Literature Essay
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In addition to these, there are numerous minor characters who are equally outlandish: birds, mice, lizards, pigeons, lizards and more. Alice has great difficulty in communicating with these characters and is often at odds with them. This may be attributed to Alice being an outsider.
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Iconic The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Literature Essay
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The Metamorphosis is a story written by Franz Kafka, an iconic literary figure of the twentieth century. The story revolves around the protagonist Gregor Samsa, a Salesman, who transforms into a Vermin over the night. With a complete and horrifying change in his life “The Metamorphosis” is a story of how Gregor copes up with the alteration.
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Beauty and the Beast - Structuralism, Reader Response, and Post Colonialism Literature Essay
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This theory of structuralism is the reaction to the alienation, despair, and modernist. The theory is influential on the linguistic perspective, this means it attempts to develop semiotics. In Madame Leprince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast” she provides an ample application of the structuralist theory. 
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Major Themes in Pride and Prejudice Literature Research Paper
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Jane Austen, an 18th-century novelist is well known for their novels which portrayed real life through her limited experience.  Her critical and ironic visions about life were truly portrayed in her novels. Critics have praised her for her intense moral preoccupation and her exploration of meaning in the relationship of her world and the world of actuality.  
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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell Literature Essay
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The essay contains a lot of obvious evidence of Orwell’s negative attitude towards imperialism: “…at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing…”, “…I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British…”, “…I thought of the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny…”.
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What Actions toward Standardization of Conservation will Ensure the Preservation of History Literature Research Paper
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What Actions toward Standardization of Conservation will Ensure the Preservation of History. Throughout American history, documentation has been made about current events, eras, inventions, politics, conflicts, and many other topics that have influenced the culture and lifestyles of many Americans.
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Do Printed Works Have a Future Literature Essay
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The author states that through the internet, customers can now access books online, read them, or read their summaries, make their selection, and then pay for their book online. Afterward, the book may be delivered as a hard copy via the mail or they may be available for download onto the customer’s computer.
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Film First Before Book Literature Essay
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Anyone who has read the book and seen the movie “Harry Potter” would be able to attest that there are parts of the book that were not included in the film anymore. This can easily be defended though, because a film or movie lasts only up to 2 hours, while a book can be of any number of pages.
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Hamlet is Essentially the Victim of his own Deception: A Critical Approach Literature Essay
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Hamlet despises deception, and craves for truth and honesty more than most other characters do in the play. Ironically Hamlet himself resorts to deceptions and lies in order to discover the truth about the regicide, and, in the long run, he himself is ensnared in his own lie and deception.
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The Suffering of Prometheus and Encounters with Zeus Literature Essay
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Prometheus, the son of Themis or Gaia (Earth) as she is called by many names, is an immortal god. He is believed to have created mankind out of clay, or on other accounts, out of earth and water, and gave them all the favorable qualities possessed by the other animals. He is the “giver of fire, the inventor of the useful arts.
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The Possible Effects of Loving Persons Renunciation Literature Research Paper
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Among the huge variety of human feelings, there is one that is able to push you to commonly ambiguous and illogical actions. The power of love is so tremendous that occasionally it may crash and mend a lot of destines simultaneously. The story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner tells about one-sided infatuation that dooms two lives to failure.
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The Journey to Becoming a Technical Support Manager Literature Essay
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In the area of technical support where every day is a stressful day, major adjustments have to be made so that an employee would eventually feel at ease with the working environment. Because the practice of technical support in companies is new in the information technology industry, there are no formalizations yet to its application.
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Applying for MA in English Literature Literature Research Proposal
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In addition, it is also because literature is significant in influencing people's views and principles (Cruz 1). The learning of English literature has constantly been my passion, allowing me to challenge my personal hypothesis regarding texts, not by seeking instantly recognizable answers, but rather through searching of diverse thinking and understanding.
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Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller Literature Essay
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In these regards, the extent that Linda constitutes a simple stereotype or a multidimensional character is one of the major questions. This essay investigates Linda’s characterization throughout the play and considers if she helps Willy or hinders him. At the beginning of the play Miller largely presents Linda as a stereotypical character.
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Language Arts Unit Plan Literature Term Paper
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Often, oral instruction can show that students have limited knowledge of individual words, thus requiring vocabulary building interventions. In this lesson, as well as succeeding 4 other lessons, a single selection is used as a teaching material. This is the poem of Robert Louis Stevenson “The Land of Storybooks,” a literary poetry piece used for Grade School learners.
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Ignorance in Harrison Bergeron, The Lottery, and The Yellow Wallpaper Literature Essay
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According to the research, tragic the ignorance is in each story, all of the authors depend upon their characters’ ignorance to create suspense and theme within the story.  Without Mr. Summers’ ignorance of the lottery, Mrs. Hutchinson’s death would not be shocking, and it would not force the reader to confront all the needless deaths that occur in his world.
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The Feminist Theme in The Story of an Hour Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that while arguing his position Wang very often says that Chopin’s protagonist Louise continually searches for her selfhood. But in Chopin’s age, such an attempt of a woman to seek freedom which seems to be insulting to the male-dominated society usually ends in smoke like Louise.
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Patriotism in Dantes Inferno Literature Essay
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Saint Augustine defined evil as the absence of substance, or complete nothingness. There is no feeling, just complete numbness therefore Beccheria is immersed in ice with his head bent downward. This is the harshest of all punishments because it leads to a feeling of "nothingness." This is what traitors suffer through and it is clearly the worst punishment of all.
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The Liars by Henry Arthur Jones Literature Essay
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The woman in her perhaps is dissatisfied with monotony of her conjugal life. The writer has touched upon the theme in a light tone and has not described it in a somber and tragic mode.
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Portrayal's of Persians in Aeschylus' Persians and the Film 300 Literature Essay
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The Persians movie takes place in the capital of the city of Persia, Susa. The beginning of the play is by a chorus, which represents Persians nobles, and the queen waiting for the war news (Spencer 193). This was not the normal begging of the play by Aeschylus as the chorus in his movies usually come slightly after the speech by a character.
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Understanding Romeo and Juliet Literature Research Paper
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The Nurse also plays the role of a friend and a confidant to Juliet, something she dearly needs at her tender age. Finally, the nurse provides counsel for Juliet. Throughout the play, Juliet is subject to decision-making in regard to marriage, love, loyalty, and trust. She seeks her Nurse’s assistance to make these decisions.
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Who is responsible for Irmas untimate success Literature Essay
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Who is responsible for Irma’s ultimate success? ‘When we were strangers’, is a compelling tale that is a mixture of dreams, heartbreaks, loss and success. The book brings out the life of a young poverty stricken young woman, Irma Vitale who lives in a tiny village of Opi hidden in the Abruzzi Mountains.
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Dr. Jekyll Transformation Literature Book Report/Review
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Dr. Jekyll is a scientist experimenting on a way to separate the dark side of his nature from the light as a means of escaping some of his feelings of guilt for not always adhering to the strict decorous rules of his society. It is his thought that if he can release the dark side in this way, he can help cure society of its evil nature.
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Influence of the Past and Past Information on World Literature Literature Essay
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This research paper is about authors who have written about the past or with the past in mind. I will critically evaluate the literature written by three authors: Marcel Proust, Birago Diop, and Leslie Marmon Silko. These authors are in one way or another writing about the past or writing with past in mind.
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Latin American Literature Literature Research Paper
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The spread and popularity of Latin American literature goes back to the 1850s after the region gained its independence from Spain. The independence of Latin America was a great motivation to literature, as it inspired the emerging literary tradition at that time, which entailed documenting colonial texts.
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Analysis of the work of poet William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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Most of his works, especially poems, had similar features which will be discussed in details in this paper. To begin with, most of the sonnets or other pieces of literature that he wrote had specific themes that directly or directly attacked or aimed at correcting the society (Callaghan 34).
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Real and Imagined Fears during the French Revolution in Morans Madame Tussaud Literature Essay
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Marie is surprised that the Duc d’ Orléans does not mention this generosity from the King’s family to Camille and Robespierre: “I think of his self-satisfied grin when Robespierre and Camille rage against the monarchy, and how he sits back and swirls his brandy when Marat asks him what should be done about our king” (Moran 63).
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