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...the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity. In the tale, Christ comes back to earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. He performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize him and adore him, but he is arrested by...

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... Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now. (Summary from wikipedia.org)...

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...u believe is the most important matter in life. In a morally troubled world, how powerful a hold does religion have? Are you confused about religious ambiguity, love of money, love of power, sexual immorality, art? Reading The Brass Bed and other Stories may help, then again it may just raise more questions....

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...r who would unify them in perfection. The genius of Spenser is in the complexity he achieves in his allegorical construct, and in the shades of moral ambiguity he reveals in the action of his characters while keeping the enormity of his project well-structured and, more impressively, immediate, mostly through his deft use of the form he created, which gives structure and o...

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...Vision Ambiguity Of The Idea The Sunflower And The Heliotrope Dawn Island Of Perception The Feeling Of A Feeling Gulf The Winds Fandango Of Time Pomegranate Without You, In You Gift Of The Already Given Communication Is A...

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...rophecy Definition of prophecy. Distinction between revelation to Moses and to the other prophets. Between Christ and other recipients of revelation. Ambiguity of the word ?Spirit.? The different senses in which things may be referred to God. Different senses of ?Spirit of God.? Prophets perceived revelation by imagination. CHAPTER II ? Of Prophets. A mistake to suppose th...

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... to the other prophets. Between Christ and other recipients of revelation. Ambiguity of the word “Spirit.” The different senses in which things may be...

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... passengers and this nascent association contained the complex and awkward ambiguity of not being clearly professional or personal and he and his pros...

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..., but the threat itself shows how dramatic such a decision is. Penelope’s ambiguity and complicity with the Suitors becomes evident if we look at h... ...thers and towards life. It is equally very difficult to step away from the ambiguity that we get stuck in when we want everything and we are unwilli... ... when we want everything and we are unwilling to let go of anything. This ambiguity, already mentioned in the dialogue between Athena and Telemachu... ...om her mother, thus becoming a woman who is able to love a man. This same ambiguity belongs to Ulysses as well, and this is obvious in his relation... ...ut the dream of her geese that are killed by an eagle reveals her profound ambiguity and her equally deep attachment to the devouring mother. C... ... 238 new inner position towards the devouring mother and towards her own ambiguity with respect to wanting to grow up and become a woman. This w...

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...Whether the dream attempted to indict him as a homosexual or depict sexual ambiguity, he could not see either one as exceptionally true at mirroring h... ... he stayed silent. He sensed that this imparted kiss was deliberate in its ambiguity; that his stare was a spotlight; and that his grin was one of gai... ...ct that such petty and banal interactions brought ribald pleasure, and the ambiguity of motives a sense of suspense to life's limited beings. Now he w... ...--just watch it go down. You think you can do that?" Nawin wondered of the ambiguity of language. Was it such because it was inadequate in conveying ...

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...d a tad easier. She struggled to square her concept of honesty with the moral ambiguity of his job. He was just so inscrutable, always hiding his fe...

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...returned to their seats. Then, after the performance, he cornered him in the ambiguity of a "maybe" which a strong will could distort to affirmation. ...

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...d clearest; the only thing left with a tat- ter of dusky comfort being the ambiguity of Godfrey’s charge that her own action had “done” for him. That ...

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...s intention, are failures in satiric effort pretending to the treasures of ambiguity. The Humourist of mean order is a refreshing laugher, giv- ing to...

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...e who looks at it from the artistic point of view it contains a bottomless ambiguity.” She became at this, on the spot, all intensity. “Ah do describe...

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...,” was the reply of Antonio to the question of Charles—Julia smiled at the ambiguity of the answer, and was confirmed in her impres- sion that he had ...

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...sm to Germany? Why do they maintain a threaten- 44 In the Fourth Year ing ambiguity towards Germany on all these matters? By doing so they leave Germ...

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...to certain peculiari- ties in the position of Miriam herself. There was an ambiguity about this young lady, which, though it did not necessarily imply... ... work and what was nature’s, but left it all in very much the same kind of ambiguity and half- knowledge in which antiquarians generally leave the ide...

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...or plun- dered. The sums are the scoundrel’s share, and where he feared an ambiguity, you see he added something clearer. ‘Offe Caraccas,’ now; you se... ... and the terms of the note on the back, as you will hear, admitted of some ambiguity. They ran, the reader may remember, thus: Tall tree, Spy-glass sh...

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...whether by day or night, the purpose of the dead in these abhorred activities is still the same. In Samoa, my informant had no idea of the food of the... ... her tainted body, are all points to be remarked. The truth is, the tales are not necessarily consistent in themselves; and they are further darkened ...

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...n his character; he was soured and discontented; he was tired of political ambiguity, and privately had made up his mind to come forward openly as lea...