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... Lucifer the desire that motivates the play's ac- tion : " Let me but / Be taught the mystery of my being ” ( I.i.322 ) . This request neatly points to the dilemma of having lost Eden , that imagin- ary time when one could ignore the ...
... Lucifer the desire that motivates the play's ac- tion : " Let me but / Be taught the mystery of my being ” ( I.i.322 ) . This request neatly points to the dilemma of having lost Eden , that imagin- ary time when one could ignore the ...
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... Lucifer exist ? Cain answers that Lucifer functions as the necessary grounds for meaning ; as the principle of différance , of signification . The tree of knowledge is the necessary preface to the tree of life ; Cain's parents had to ...
... Lucifer exist ? Cain answers that Lucifer functions as the necessary grounds for meaning ; as the principle of différance , of signification . The tree of knowledge is the necessary preface to the tree of life ; Cain's parents had to ...
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... Lucifer's insight that life and immortality are one suggests Byron's position that just so , the hell or heaven one ... Lucifer when he tells Cain that he does not know death ( I.i.289 ) , and we should remember that the dark spirit has ...
... Lucifer's insight that life and immortality are one suggests Byron's position that just so , the hell or heaven one ... Lucifer when he tells Cain that he does not know death ( I.i.289 ) , and we should remember that the dark spirit has ...
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