Romanticism realisin
He had never seen dags fight as these wolfish creatures
fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable
lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would
not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim.
In one of the mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon
his entering the world's capital, the bones of a whale, brought
all the way from the Syrian coast were the most
conspicuous object in the cymballed procession
Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small
touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by
the sharkish sea. The white whale is their demigorgon
for of the many Southland dogs he had known, not one
had shown up worthily in camp and on trail. They were all
too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion