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Ibtisam Abdullah (The Nursery and The Other in the Mirror) Literature Essay
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  These stories by Ibtisam Adbullah shed light on the dire political and economic circumstances of Iraq through feminist concern. In the story “The Nursery”, an Iraqi single mother is facing the hardships at home due the drought and the world economic sanctions that were laid against Iraq from 1990 to 2003.
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The Odyssey. Review of the Facts and Details Literature Essay
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The Odyssey is an extreme form of fiction that has no connection with reality. The culture of the gods has been defined in a way that numerous gods assist humans against one another. Intelligence is the key to success in the play The Odyssey.
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Graphic Content in The Color Purple: Necessary or Potentially Damaging Literature Essay
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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Graphic Content in “The Color Purple”: Necessary or Potentially Damaging? Introduction Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” opens with a graphic description of the incestuous rape of a fourteen year old girl by her father.
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The Formation of the Arab World as a Mappable Territorial Entity Literature Essay
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The concept of the ‘mappability’ of the Arab world has its underpinnings in the Arab world being distributed in a nucleated manner. Countries that are considered part of the Arab world stretch in an uninterrupted file from West and North Africa, right into the Middle East. This is to the effect that the Arab League of Nations comprises 22 states that border one another in a continuous chain.
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The Role of the Poet in Medieval Society Literature Essay
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Without sufficient entertainment value, the minstrel was subject to the mood of the crowd or the powers he performed for in that his life often was the cost of poorly performing his work or the works of others (Hasler 2011). Through the minstrel, the medieval information system was formed and the spirit of social commentary was manifested.
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A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt Literature Essay
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William Roper as an Exaggeration of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. During the play A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, William Roper often acts as a counterpoint to the ideas expressed by Sir Thomas More. In reality, their ideas are not all that different, since they both believe in God and both feel like rules for morality in society are necessary, but they go about it in different ways.
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Anna Letitia Barbaulds The Rights of Woman Literature Essay
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But the poem is written in a satirical style that one may misunderstand the poet as opposing the rights of the women towards the concluding lines of the poem. The first stanza of the poem itself is notable for the exhortation of the poet when he addresses the women as ‘injured women’ and prompts them to ‘rise, assert thy right!
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Poem Analysis Daddy from Sylvia Plath Literature Research Paper
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She employs the use of figurative speech in order to convey her message in a simple but indirect way. Her tough childhood depicted in the poem can be compared with the misery that people went through after WW2. She uses her father as an image of Hitler/Nazis as well as mentions some of the shattered towns by the Nazis cruelty, in order to portray the suffering of the people.
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Questions & Response Paper Literature Assignment
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From the essay, it's clear that the author states that, Richard Cory was, “Clean favored, and imperially slim”. By referring to Richard as being imperially slim, it seems like the author likens him to a man born of a royal family. The author and his friend from the pavement looked at Richard every time he went downtown.
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Herculine Barbin and Gender Literature Essay
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On this ground, there appears no particular border by which we may hold in full recognition the sex of a hermaphrodite in the sense of confident truth especially that Herculine Barbin herself occurred to have not established a definitive claim of what identifies her or where she belongs considering the unity of her biological constitution, nature, and will altogether.
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Children's Literature Literature Essay
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One of the best examples of this is the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling where traditional British themes are produced as desirable and modernity of the human world is rejected as immaterial. The transformation of children’s literature into film is not a new idea.
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Harlem Renaissance - Focusing on the Black Community Literature Research Paper
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There is a need for invoking a vivid illustration in our imagination and simply using their name as a form of identity and reference. They had been referred to as Negros, Blacks, Black-Americans before they could be referred to as Americans as presently. An individual might be prompted to think of the case where the name which is termed verbally posing contention, what of the activities.
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Margaret Atwood's Death by Landscape & A buldingsroman Literature Essay
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With her kids all grown-up already, she moves in to a different and smaller apartment that she decorates with various pictures she had collected over the years. At first, one would wonder why she wants the pictures that give her no peace. Atwood writes, “She does not find them peaceful in the least.
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The Flood Stories in the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh Literature Essay
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It is very important to scrutinize these three different floods in an effort to identify the distinguishing activities while still trying to find out what binds them. Moreover, the discovery and understanding of the lessons learned from the floods is a deal of great importance. The first focus is on the floods accounted for in the bible.
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King Lear and White Devil: A Comparison of their Corruption Literature Coursework
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There are many pieces of literature that are held as valuable and given the honor of being called a classic. Many of them were composed by very noteworthy authors who have given the world a gift in the form of a library of astonishing works which display the genius and the wisdom of the authors who wrote them.
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Annotated Bibliography on Fernando Pessoa and Nationalism Literature Literature review
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The author utilizes the paradigms of modernism to identify the influences of Joyce on these artists. The author attributes the modernist nature of Pessoa to his schooling in South Africa and his fluency in English.
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Analysis of White Lies by Natasha Trethewey Literature Essay
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In the first stanza of the poem, the poet makes a reference to her skin color by calling it ‘light-bright’ or ‘near-white’ however she also makes a note by saying that in black place these were merely just white lies. This refers to the fact that she would tell everyone that she was pure white in nature, despite coming from half a black background.
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Modernism in literature Literature Essay
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It should be noted that literature from Europe in the 18th century has greater reference in understanding the history of literature. Main characteristic to modernism was the embrace of self-consciously distinction between traditional forms of literature especially in verses as well as in poems (Davis, 2006, p. 1-15; ‘Jalic Inc’. 2000 – 2013, para 1).
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The benefits of Tai Chi practice, specially for the aging population Literature Essay
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“Instead of focusing on quick, powerful, and vigorous movements for self-defense or attacking actions like those in other martial arts, tai chi emphasizes on graceful skills and movement patterns.” (Wozny, 2007, p.34) Originally developed and practiced in China, Tai Chi has now travelled to distant shores and is embraced by all age-groups.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Literature Essay
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Chevalier tried to build up the story that inspired the painter producing a novel that made great sales. Webber took the fiction further by producing a film. Webber’s venture of transforming the book into film manages to give the viewer a connection with the story’s emotions.
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Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson Literature Book Report/Review
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What they found was not just a mere cheese but a huge source of cheese. Haw and Hew have even relocated their residence to be near the source and it has becomes the center of their lives (Johnson Spencer, p26). .
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Wuthering Heights Literature Essay
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Heathcliff is subjectively a Heights figure opposing the Grange, and objectively a Grange figure undermining the Heights; he focuses acutely the contradictions between the two worlds.’ Discuss this statement about Wuthering Heights.
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International Marketing of Vintage Wines Literature Essay
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The company manufacturers one of the finest quality wines but it is operating on a smaller scale in India. Due to the increasing pressures of competition from existing and new players in the Indian market and other macro-environmental factors, Vintage Wines has found it difficult to retain its market share lately.
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Analysis of Sherman Alexie's The Powwow at the End of the World Literature Book Report/Review
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The rhythm of the poetry also played an important part. Alexie structured this particular poem in an uninterrupted flow. This is typical of his style, which some brand as too hurried and impatient. It is even likely that people would have trouble differentiating it from Alexis' stories because there is some prose-like quality to it. 
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Edgar Allan Poe Literature Research Paper
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Apparently, the work of Poe as a poet, a critic and an editor had a greatly impacted on American as well as international literature. In deed, he was one of the first American writers who became a key figure in world literature.
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Tragedy in Oedipus the King Literature Essay
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The oracle reveals that the plague will only end when the murderer of the erstwhile king Laius is killed or banished for his misdeed. Oedipus also calls upon Tiresias who reluctantly divulges that it is Oedipus who killed Laius. Oedipus is angered because he has won against the Sphinx and has his pride.
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Pygmalion, a Social Critique Literature Research Paper
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Bernard Shaw, the second greatest playwright, just behind Shakespeare, was a socialist, a semi- feminist, and more over a modern dramatist. Of all the other plays Pygmalion was the most received and significant. Pygmalion was the legendary sculpture and the king of Cyprus who adorned his own statue of Aphrodite.
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Truth, Love, and the Exotic: The Amoretti Series of Edmund Spenser 1 Literature Essay
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Edmund Spenser introduces his lady in the poem Amoretti in different ways that impress Stuart Martz for the emotional context in which they place their relationship.
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Women Role in World Literature Literature Essay
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Women hold a very powerful role in society; since times immemorial, they have been playing a vital part in raising a family, taking decisions, handling work and business, taking care of their husband’s and children’s lifestyle, helping their parents and other family members, etc.
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The Concept of Heroism in Beowulf Literature Research Paper
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The mere act of accepting his duty to take on the dragon brings honor to Beowulf further highlighting the Germanic heroism. This honor is further solidified by the way he fails to retreat even after his sword breaks. It appears Beowulf not only perseveres in battles but also lives, fights, and dies for nothing but the welfare of his subjects.
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Lifestory of George Orwell Literature Essay
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The book exposes the communist regime in Russia under Stalin. In 1949, he relocated to Jura Islands in Scotland where he wrote his book “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” This was the time when the wounds of World War II were still fresh he was able to raise many points concerning fascism. Orwell died on 21st January 1950 aged 46 years old of lung disease.
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Hamlet - Formal Psychoanalytic Analysis Literature Essay
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From the play, it is evident that Claudius is under control of the id hence not in touch with reality. He has a crave and desire to satisfy his own selfish wishes and he confirms this by saying this during King Hamlets funeral, “Though yet Hamlet our dear brother’s death/ The memory be green (we must be) together with remembrance of ourselves” (Bloom 33).
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The myth of Napoleon and the Napoleonic years for the Romantics of the second wave Literature Essay
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The romantic poets garnered their inspiration from Napoleon, whom they praised considerably in their works while comparing him to his less liked nephew, Napoleon III, who was the French emperor at the time.
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The Play Hamlet by Shakespeare and Hamlets Insanity Literature Essay
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Something turns out tragically for Hamlet. In the play, Hamlet feigns madness so that he can discover the truth behind his father’s death (Shakespeare 29). This plan proceeds well, but he slowly begins to slide down the tunnel to insanity. This causes his mind to go out of control. What started as an act of antic disposition or insanity becomes less of an act and it ends up in Hamlet’s reality and tragedy.
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Can Twue Love Exist in the Universe of Heart of Darkness Literature Essay
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For this to be realized there is a need for devotion and respect to one another. This concept lacks appreciation of others lacks in Heart of Darkness, thus Twue love cannot exist in such a universe. Heart of Darkness explores the matters involving imperialism in complicated methods. This is a confirmation that Twue love cannot exist in such an environment.
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Gender and Womanhood Question in The Three Stories Literature Term Paper
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The common element that unites these stories is the way in which the female leading characters in these three stories show a will to survive in the face of adversities. All three stories show subdued victims who are not much able to fight against the injustices they suffer from. But they neither succumb to them.
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Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Literature Research Paper
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Grube states that, ‘Aristotle defines tragedy as, a tragedy is an imitation of a good action, complete and of a certain length by means of language sweetened for each of its two parts separately; it relies on its various elements upon acting, not narrative; through pity and fear it achieves the catharsis of such emotions’(Grube, 1995, 74).  
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F.Scott Fitzgerald's Biography and his story Babylon Revisited Literature Essay
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Charlie Wales, the protagonist of the 1930 short story “Babylon Revisited,” bears an undeniable resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author who crafted his story. Charlie, a recovering alcoholic who takes “one drink every afternoon, and no more” (Fitzgerald) to prove that alcohol no longer has a hold over him, seeks to regain custody of his daughter, Honoria.
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The Supernatural and the Reality of Zombies Literature Annotated Bibliography
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It specifically tackles the role of voodoo and the priests that summon the spirits in order to reanimate the dead. The writers detail the process of natural summons and the rituals entailed prior to the creation of zombies. They were also aware of the specific terms that classify the un-dead as zombies.
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Entrapped Females in Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour and William Faulkners The Rose for Emily Literature Essay
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While Mrs. Mallard feels entrapped in her loveless marriage and thinks death of her husban as a way of salvation, Miss Emily retreats to her home in order to avoid the controlling gaze of a patriarchal society. However, both characters are different in a sense that while Mrs. Mallard is an optimistic and outgoing person who looks forward to her freedom and thinks that death of her husband would provide that opportunity; Emily is a pessimistic and reclusive person who clings to the past.
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Research Paper on The Metamorphosis Literature Research Paper
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The novella recounts a story of a salesman by name Gregor Samsa, who is surprised on waking up and realizing that he has been transformed into an insect like creature. This story was written at the times of high tensions of the World War II where the Nazi Germans were executing Jews.
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Lois Lowrys The Giver (The Giver Quartet #1) Literature Book Report/Review
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Lois Lowry’s book "The Giver (The Giver Quartet #1)" is set on a utopian society, which gradually transform into a dystopian society. The book captures the life of a young boy named Jonas, up to his twelfth birthday.
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The role of the missionaries in Achebe's Things Fall Apart Literature Essay
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Missionaries play various roles in Achebe's Things Fall Apart. First, the role of missionaries in this novel is to cause socio-cultural transformation. The ultimate definition of a great man was the one who was able to feed his family with yams, from one season to the other (Achebe, 33).
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Misogyny in medieval romance literature Literature Essay
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The medieval culture was always characterized by Misogyny, however in the late middle epoch; the issue became viral and more powerful. According to scholars, this was a result of the various factors that distinguished the fourteenth century including war, plague, revolt and class division.
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Contrast between Frederick Douglass & Harriet Jacobs Narrative Literature Essay
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The autobiography of Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, and that of Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself, succeeds in bowing our heads in prayer. Both the authors were of African-American origin, born slaves, bonded in the southern part of America.
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Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell Literature Essay
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The women companions of the investigators rose above all the trivial expectations which men had from their female counterparts, and play a role which is for a large cause and pro-feminist in nature.
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Wislawa Szymborska Literature Research Paper
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Wislawa Szymborska. Wislawa Szymborska is regarded as one of the foremost Polish poets of the 20th century. Szymborska was born in 1923 in Prowent (‘Nobel Prize’). Her parents were Wincenty Szymboroski and Anna nee’ Rottermind. She would move to Bnin, a town located in Western Poland and later to Krakow in 1931 (‘Nobel Prize’).
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Marriage in Much Ado About Nothing and Trifles Literature Essay
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In examining Benedict and Beatrice’s marriage in Much Ado About Nothing, it seems apparent they there’s great potential this marriage won’t last.
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Character Sketch of Billy Budd Literature Essay
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Melville writes about the qualities of head and heart of Billy Budd, “… [t]here was nothing this honest soul at heart loved better than simple peace and quiet.”(4) Officers and other ranks like his pleasant disposition and he brings cheer to the hearts of the weathered sailors.
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American lliterature. Questions and answers Literature Essay
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Haemon tried to convince his father to give Polynices a proper burial as required by God’s law. Creon did not want to give Polynices a proper burial, he also vowed to punish anyone that would take the responsibility of a proper burial. Haemon tried to argue with his father informing him that the laws of the land permitted the burial of any individual and he should therefore give Polynices a proper burial.
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