.... Gatsby remains restless and indecisive about his own needs. For months, he has parties almost every week, which are attended by much of New York's high society. However, he never seems to enjoy these parties, because he rarely attends them himself, and when he sees that Daisy does not like them, he calls them off. This shows that although he is wealthy, he is not making himself happy. A direct analogy to the withering, or death of the American dream is that Gatsby is murdered in the end of the book. In the story, when Gatsby dies, the glamour and appeal of the American dream .....

.... of the flesh. 's impending downward spiral reveals the greed that both Mephisto and share. Mephisto's greed is evident in the hope that he will overcome 's morality and thus be victorious in his wager with God; also because he is the devil and that is what he does. For , greed emerges because of his desire to attain physical pleasures and therefore become whole in mind, body and spirit. 's goal to become the Überminche is an understandable desire; however, the means at which he strives for those ends are irresponsible and unjust. It is through this greed that with the help of .....

.... only when told to do so. As time progresses, they come to accept prison’s daily routine. The prisoners grow accustomed to being told what to do, then doing it. When enough time passes, prison life is all the life that they know. Acceptance of their controlled life becomes dependence as they are no longer able to function on their own, but rely on being told what to do. In the final stages, the prisoners loose their individual wills. Red understood the dynamics of prison all too well and labeled the process as being institutionalized. "These walls are funny .....

.... having a say in the government. Ralph was kind and good to the people of his society. He let them have freedom and liberties which was not go for his society because they abused their freedom and became lazy and irresponsible. His society did not have their priorities in order because Ralph did not stress that the rescue fire and the shelters were necessary. Ralph was passive and did not keep his society in line. The were too unruly to control. Another factor in the demise of Ralph’s society was the other members. Piggy, like Ralph, was not aggressive enough. He let hims .....

.... the idea that Hamlet is 'what he appears to be'. Later, he clearly makes a statement about his mental health when he commits himself to avenge his father's murder. This quote allows the reader to follow Hamlet's train of thought in regards to his role as student, mourning son, and Prince to the throne: "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain" (1054, line 100). Hamlet is stating his utmost commitment t .....

.... the poem it refers to an exciting happy occasion. The second time it is used in line 6, it refers to a casket being carried on the shoulders of others, a sad and mournful time. Rather than join the others in mourning, however, in the third stanza the speaker is instead reflecting on how lucky the young athlete was to have died when he did: Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. Dying was better than lingering on outlasting the glory of his victories. He speaks of how luc .....

.... Lewis canon that speaks directly and unabashedly about his personal life. Given the almost stifling attention that Lewis's private life has received since his death in 1963, Surprised by Joy stands apart as an astonishingly candid yet self-effacing volume by one widely-regarded as the premier Christian apologist of the twentieth century. Lewis proceeds in Surprised by Joy as one reluctant to reveal specific details of his life but who relents, as he suggests in the preface, in order both to answer "requests that I would tell how I passed from Atheism to Christianity" and "to c .....

.... lead to further aversion to him. He shows himself to be a strict puritan and this is also suggested by the opinion of Maria "The devil a puritan that he is". He denies himself indulgences and pleasure whilst at the same time begrudging these things of others. He makes a point of taking the moral high ground over Maria, Feste and more importantly, his social superior Sir Toby, when he scorns them for their revelries and "disorders". This in turn adds to their desire to avenge him and bring him from his level of false authority, back to his true social class .....