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The Masque of the Red DeathPrince Prospero’s guests know that if they remain outside the walls of his castellated abbey, then they are likely to wind up dead, as so many people in this benighted land have done. There’s a...
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The Lotos-EatersThe mariners complain of how tired they are, and wonder why they can't take a "rest from weariness." It seems to them that everyone else gets to rest, while they have been toiling for years to get...
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LiteratureThe passages that the characters speak or sing in these two Irish plays have some similarities. In “Riders to the Sea” by J. M. Synge, Maurya is a woman who has lost several sons to the sea. Her...
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