…of examination. This is in no way ideal but Purcell in I am I love you; the human person as friend implicates three distinct areas of orientation; the emotional/ aesthetic, the intellectual and the moral. These areas are actively orientated towards beauty, truth and good respectively. These orientations, when genuine,…

…because the German girls are probably prostitutes, relationships between them are uncomplicated. Without any need for conversation, the soldiers simply satisfy their lust on the prostitutes' bodies. Just as he emphasizes the German girls' lack of beauty, Hemingway also erases the Rhine to show the lack of romance in such…

…holy provisions of church. Emerson implores all adherents of the Transcendental religion to quarry from nature's (the Transcendental house of worship) bounty its mystical healing and restorative powers. He asks that while respecting the majestic beauty of nature, that one ought become unified with the wisdom and exalting powers of…

…the corruption of the American Dream. What was once—for Ben Franklin, for example, or Thomas Jefferson—a belief in self-reliance and hard work has become what Nick Carraway calls …the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. The energy that might have gone into the pursuit of noble goals has…