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  • The Second Coming

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    The Second Coming is the story of depressed and middle-aged Will Barrett, a man lost in the labyrinth of his own memories. Doubting God's existence and haunted by the shadow of his father's suicide, will retreats from society and begins overdosing on drugs in an effort to force God to reveal Himself or else prove His non-existence by failure to intervene. Will is saved by a young escaped mental patient, Allison, and the two care for each other and find temporary redemption.

  • Comparative Analysis of the The Second Coming.

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    Topic Comparative analysis of the W B Yeats s poem The Second Coming W B Yeats wrote The Second Coming in January 1919 while Europe and much of the rest of the world was trying to recover from World War I therefore it is necessary to place the poem in historical context This period was a time when the crisis of the bourgeois world reached its highest point and revolutions took place in several countries in Ireland in Russia in Germany and in Hungary The poem refers to those revolutions but it i

  • Brutalism in Lord of the Flies and The Second Coming

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    Humans are innately brutish and evil their animalistic disposition concealed by a false front of civility The pieces Lord of the Flies and The Second Coming illustrate that when there is an absence of order mankind erodes to savagery and barbarianism While William Golding and William Yeats both place emphasis on the consequences suffered with the absence of an authority figure similarities are discovered between the two pieces of work These works highlight how the loss of the ability to communi

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