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Feet of Clay

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Feet of Clay

a biblical story

King Nebuchadnezzar

has a dream of a man's statue

The man was made of precious metals

Except his feet of clay

This soon came to mean a character's

flaw or weakness
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Leo from The Subterraneans

as an analogy to why his love for Mardou would fail
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Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband

states that "We all have feet of clay"
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Citations

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Bieroski, T. (n.d.). Kerouac in Ecstasy. Retrieved December 12, 2014, from http://books.google.com/books?id=Jg_mi5paIKcC&pg=PA117&Ipg=PA117&dg-feet of clay allusion mardou&source=bl&ots=050iuRaaLB&sig=DISWILDd870xzJWJsDIQCR5wt8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AmCIVI7mJtL2yQS7-4LYBQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jeffery, D. (n.d.). A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Retrieved December 12, 2014, from http://books.google.com/books?id=zD6xVr1CizIC&pg=PA274&dg=feet of clay allusion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VGGIVOawDYucygTXhYK4DA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Bible

American Standard Version