The description "....is customary amongst well-bred officials." is important for the passage because <em>It magnifies the isolation and humiliation that characterize Akakiy’s situation.</em>
Nikolai Gogol, the writer of " The Overcoat", in this description shows the way in which the main character, Akakiy, is treated by his co-workers. The writer ,ironically, refers to Akakiy's co-workers as <em>well-bred officials. </em>In Russia , a bureaucratic society, each state official was expected to be educated and learned - <em>well-bred</em>-<em>, </em>however these manners were not the manners they used when addressing Akakiy. He was humiliated by his co-workers because they laughed at him all the time.
The primary theme in Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is the self-imposed barriers humans make to separate each other and prevent interaction. The poem suggests that the wall is unnatural and unhealthy for them, yet the neighbors meet every year for maintenance. The wall is a metaphor for barriers we create and maintain on the basis of tradition.
It probably has something to do with how the moon goes around the earth due to the gravitational pull and how an apple falls because of gravity as well. Even though the moon isn't falling onto the earth, they are still both following a set of rules that have to do with gravity.
I believe you are talking about Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare let you know the tragic ending of the story right at the very beginning since he uses foreshadowing. In Act 2, you can see Romeo having a bad feeling about going to the banquet.
