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    the darkness must be present”. In plays with misfortunate events, such as Macbeth, characters go through internal conflicts, questioning good versus evil. In the play, the antagonist goes through the struggle of finding an answer to right versus wrong, along with the other characters. His mission is to become king, which leads him to a world filled with darkness where he extinguishes all the light that was there to guide him. In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, the idea of lightness and darkness are

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    them. The encompassing of the moor compliments the environment of dismal, darkness, and misdeeds that penetrate all throughout the story. The moor penetrates throughout the story a depressing and dismal feeling that sets the story’s mood. The desolate, gloom and fate that ventures all throughout the story drives itself to the plot. The moor establishes the reader to feel in the mood that the moor haunts. “We hurried through the dark shubbery, amid the dull moaning of the autumn wind… night air was

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    story written by James Baldwin, two African American brothers try to make sense of the rural deterioration that encircles and seals them both. The symbolic motif of light and darkness illustrates the painful nature of reality the two characters face as well as the power gained through it. The contrasting images of light and darkness, which serves as truth and reality, are used to depict the struggle between Sonny and the narrator in this short story. Baldwin begins his story where Sonny, the narrator’s

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    I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri revels that darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. The darkness does this both literally and figuratively. The darkness is seen in the dark woods of error, Dante’s love for Beatrice, and the ninth level of Hell. In this divine comedy, Dante faces the darkness that comes with his sins and he learns to understand and conquer these faults to get

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    the ghetto are taken to concentration camps where they go to work and live. Elie Wiesel uses language that heavily portrays death, darkness, night, and decay in Night, to help people realize how terrible the Holocaust was, and to not let it happen again. Elie Wiesel uses language related to the death and decay to help portray the horror of the experiences he went through as a Jew during the Holocaust. Wiesel tells

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    Extremes release of Darkness 2 was awesome. Its a first person shooter with a difference. You become a demon throughout the game with tentacles to kill and slap foes. It is a fun game that is quite addictive. I personally managed to complete it within a week. So it isn't a complex game, bog standard game that's fun. Gameplay The gist of the story is basically you have been 'possessed' by en evil darkness, you can switch between human and darkness mode. Human uses guns, darkness uses tentacles. Basically

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    In Fahrenheit 45, Ray Bradbury uses the motifs of light and darkness to develop characters and demonstrate that knowledge and ignorance impact the wellbeing of society . The motifs of light and darkness show the crucial effects of knowledge and ignorance on society; knowledge brings happiness and meaning that ignorance hinders. Demonstrating the effects of knowledge, Clarisse and her family, as nonconformist of their society, are intellectual as a result of their exposure to books. Unlike

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    Blues, by James Baldwin, the narrator is faced with the darkness and suffering he has dealt with throughout his life, along with the struggles of dealing with his brother, Sonny. The narrator, in denial about the suffering he has become accustomed to in Harlem, can deny it no longer after the literal and metaphorical death of his daughter Grace, and only find salvation after listening to, and comprehending his brother Sonny's music. The darkness of Harlem has always brought suffering to it’s residents

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    Savagery of Mass Hysteria: Violence and Darkness in Beowulf Throughout Beowulf, the theme of violence and darkness are intertwined, which is manifest by correlating the darkness with the unknown through Grendel and other monstrous creatures. Beowulf, the epic tale utilizes the dark and the ominous to foreshadow and portray the brutal savagery within mankind. Darkness can be define either describe the absence of light or the villainous nature of ones’ actions. Grendel and other the monsters are physical

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    light/dark within The Picture of Dorian Gray and Heart of Darkness establishes both racial and class tension by contrasting a “superior” concept with its inferior. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, setting plays a major role in displaying class differences within the novel. Darker imagery is used to portray the East End, or the lower-class part of London, while the West End is described as wealthy and cultured. For example, as Dorian travels through the East End, the chapter begins with, “A cold rain began

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