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    The theme of Clockwork Angel is you shouldn’t trust everyone. There are multiple points in the book where different characters learn the same lesson; the lesson changes how they act later on. They made a mistake and trusted someone they shouldn’t. At the end of Clockwork Angel, everybody at the Institute discovers that Mortmain, who they trusted and used for information, was really the Magister, who they were trying to track down. “Nate’s eyes flashed. “De Quincey is a peon, a serf. He answers

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    “Fire wants to burn, water wants to flow, air wants to rise, earth wants to bind, chaos wants to devour”, (pg 59; The Iron Trial); a famous quote said by Cassandra Clare in her book The Iron Trial. Cassandra Clare is a renowned American author who captures her readers young minds by her books various forms of literary elements and personal style. Examples of those books are City of Bones, her most famous novel, The Iron Trial, Infernal Devices, and more. Several ways she succeeds in doing this is

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    Throughout literature history, thousands of fictional characters have been faced with the challenge of the hero’s journey. One of those characters comes from the series Mortal Instruments which was written by Cassandra Clare. She brings to life a heroic character named Clary Fray who is forced to enter a world she has never known. Throughout her journey, Clary overcomes numerous obstacles to end up mastering not only the Shadow World, but also her own. Clary was a typical mundane, living with her

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    reported that "The Mortal Instruments" author, Cassandra Clare, cleared that "Shadowhunters" Season 2 won't be dark and gritty. In fact, it will stay to its supernatural drama roots that feature warlocks, vampires, half-angel and half-human demon hunters. "One of the things Todd and Darren realized is what's edgy is characters making really difficult, moral choices. We're going to see these characters make those choices in Season 2," Clare told the publication. Aside from putting the show's attention

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    stereotypes to the characters in the novel. Character introductions play a very important part in how the character is viewed by the reader throughout the rest of the plot; first impressions are the most lasting. We first see Evangeline St. Clare through Uncle Tom’s

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    society has placed upon the world. In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Tess is portrayed as a young maiden attempting to survive a troublesome life. Along her life journey, she encounters numerous men, particularly Alec d’Urberville and Angel Clare. Through her experiences with these men, this double standard, or the idea that men and women are not enabled to act in the same way, is emphasized in the way she is treated and viewed following certain events in the novel. Early in the novel,

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    aristocracy!" (Phase the Fifth, Chapter XXXV, pg 235-236) Angel, a character who normally rebels against conventions, cannot accept the fact that Tess is not the pure woman he thought she was, and calls her "an unapprehending peasant woman" implying that her "decrepit" family name is the reason she can 't understand why his forgiveness for Alec 's rape isn 't enough. The hypocrisy Hardy conveys through Angel is shown clearly in this passage; though Angel himself doesn 't want to follow the standards of society

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    Comparing Tess And Laila

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    but he never receives it and when she confesses Angel judges her even though they “essentially” did the same thing and Tess was the only one who was a victim. The omniscient narrator’s description of the interaction between Angel and Tess, reveals the patriarchal nature of Angel’s thoughts and his stubborn pride and reckless treatment of his wife. “She broke into sobs and turned her back to him. It would almost have won round any man but Angel Clare. Within the remote depths of his constitution, so

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    Eva is the daughter of Augustine St. Clare whose full name is Evangeline, which is the angel in the Bible. In Chapter 14, when Uncle Tom first sees Eva, the author describes Eva as following: “Her form was the perfection of childish beauty, without its usual chubbiness and squareness of outline. There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. Her face was remarkable less for its perfect beauty of feature than for a singular and

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    When Tess of the D 'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1891, it was released in serial version for The Graphic magazine and was heavily edited to provide for the Victorian sense of modesty and decency. Many important parts of the novel were omitted, moved, or simply altered, destroying some of the novel 's literary and symbolic meaning. Some of these differences between the original and edited versions completely altered the storyline of the novel, making it hard for readers to

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