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... human truths as the former ? The psychologist puts a rat in a maze ( cer- tainly an improbable situation for a rat ) , observes its reactions to the maze , and discovers some truth of rat nature . The author may put his imagined ...
... human truths as the former ? The psychologist puts a rat in a maze ( cer- tainly an improbable situation for a rat ) , observes its reactions to the maze , and discovers some truth of rat nature . The author may put his imagined ...
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... human form . In Keats's comparison we are asked to make a complete identification of autumn with a human being . In Sylvia Plath's , though the mirrow speaks and thinks , we continue to visualize it as a mirror ; similarly , in Frost's ...
... human form . In Keats's comparison we are asked to make a complete identification of autumn with a human being . In Sylvia Plath's , though the mirrow speaks and thinks , we continue to visualize it as a mirror ; similarly , in Frost's ...
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... human potential . For what most impresses us about the tragic hero is not his weakness but his greatness . He is , in a sense , " larger than life , " or , as Aristotle said , " better than ourselves . " He reveals to us the dimensions ...
... human potential . For what most impresses us about the tragic hero is not his weakness but his greatness . He is , in a sense , " larger than life , " or , as Aristotle said , " better than ourselves . " He reveals to us the dimensions ...
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Escape and Interpretation | 3 |
Thomas Wolfe The Child by Tiger | 24 |
Plot | 41 |
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