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    automatically labeled as radical exiles who did not let their political situation prevent them from continuing their fight against the repressive state. This characterization of exile is challenged in Roberto Bolaño’s short story, Mauricio (“The Eye”) Silva. The story is about an exile of Chile, Mauricio “The Eye”

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    Edward Said describes exile as “the unhealable rift” “between the self and its true home.” Both the Misfit and Othello have experienced this severance. This is ultimately an alienating experience for them, devoid of inherent value, but eventually concluding in another sort of exile-- one from Christ. Although both understand physical exile as fundamentally harmful, the separation from Christ that it leads to and their shared desire to reconnect with Him forces them into a reexamination of their lives

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    different pictures throughout this essay and each of them play a part in supporting the main point of this essay. Said believes that, without a homeland, the Palestinians cannot have an identity and the Palestinians should not be content with being exiles forever. So the purpose of the pictures is to support and further strengthen this idea. The photographer wants the viewer to understand the struggle that the Palestinians are going through. To begin, Said is trying to describe

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    their exiles in different ways. The way the two characters reflect from their exile is based off Anglo-Saxon values and beliefs. These poems compare and contrast the exile between men and women. In The Wife’s Lament, the wife is forced to exile. The wife reveals the feelings of suffering, regret, and loneliness. The wife’s misery began when her Lord left her behind. The Wife set out to find him but her Lord’s Kinsmen didn’t want them together anymore, and this is when the forced exile takes actions

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    leading to their (Babylonian) exile (586-538 BCE). The understanding of the empty land refers to the land left behind by its people, where the myth therein refers to the interpretation of certain texts and their beliefs of what the land of Israel was like during their exile. The works of Robert P. Carroll will be used as the primary basis of this interpretation. Carroll uses various texts, to demonstrate the state of the land during and after the destruction and exile, these texts also refers to several

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    chronologically. Nabokov returns anew to his early childhood and pulls in, as it were, the memories associated with certain themes. Then he turns, changes directions, and sets off again. One such theme that resonates throughout the novel is that of exile and deteterritorialization, both

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    While Rousseau explains the importance of temporary isolation to weaken the self-love that Frankenstein is engulfed with in order to find clarity, the flaw in his universal claim is found in relation to his present social relations. He explores isolation as needed in doses, positioning the monster’s situation as negative. He writes: “No natural product which has a pleasant taste can be harmful to us unless we take excessive quantities of it […] however I must admit that I kept a watch on myself for

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    The “Seafarer” and the “Wife’s Lament” poems are series of Anglo-Saxon exile poem. Each poem has its own syntaxes, however throughout the Seafarer and Wife’s Lament poem the theme of loneliness is the underline vividly to the reader. In the Seafarer and the Wife’s Lament, both characters are exiled and in great sadness, however, the Seafarer’s view of heaven allows him to see a future beyond his hardships. Even though the “ Wife’s Lament” and “Seafarer” have similar tone in essence, however the

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    poems we will be dissecting, you will see how these two different situations have a lot in common. In one of the oldest poems known in the world, The Seafarer was written long by an unknown author. Throughout the poem we see how the man takes his exile emotionally and physically, all the while he sails the sea and world. He goes to other countries and shows how on his missions he sees amazing things, but he expresses how sad he is. In the second poem, The Wife’s Lament, a woman is exiled to a cave

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    “The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare”, an Early Irish poem, is from the point of view of an old woman who has begun to reflect on her life. “The Wanderer”, is spoken by a bard who has been sent into exile after the death of his Lord. While in exile he begins to review his life, miss everything he has lost and look at life on a more spiritual level. Both speakers are experiencing what it feels like to be lonely because the people that were once there for them have either left or they have passed

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