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aspirations that motivate characters ultimately cause them harm or become their undoing. The problematic object for Kleist’s Samia is her dream of living out her passion for running in a better life for herself as well as for her loved ones. Beyond her hopes of again competing in the Olympic Games, Samia
correspondences. The traveler of course corresponds to the person leading a life. The journey corresponds to living a life. The destination corresponds to the purpose or goal of life. The stages of the journey correspond to stages in life. The distance covered along the journey corresponds to the progress made in
's Juliana and Elene and the anonymous Judith, three 105 poems that have now received a considerable amount of critical attention,4 show how natural it was for poets living in a time when both women and men could be heroes to use their native tradition to turn what they learned from books into new
's speech first reasserts itself as the subject of a verb, that verb, geseah, does not carry a sense of strongly motivated, or even voluntary action. The Cross, however, sees the totally motivated choice of Christ to yield up His own life; and we see the Cross of the dreamer's inward vision caught in an
completely different way in the love is fire metaphor or in the life is fire metaphor. It looks like we have a more general kind of conceptual metaphor, a higher-level metaphor that we can call intensity is heat . That seems to motivate the particular specific-level conceptual metaphors, which in turn
that occurs around the world. Now as part of this metaphor, there is another very important case, which is external events can affect you. That is, something that happens outside can cause you to do something else, and can make a change in your life. So if achieving a purpose is reaching a