Essays 541 - 570
prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...
our power to exact our revenge? Perhaps, she suggests, there is some medium-ground that would do a little of both without going t...
the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...
Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...
her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...
cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...
with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...
Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...
a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...
to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...
Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...
na?ve Desdemona, he marries her without hesitation or reservation because he believes he has finally found someone with whom he ca...
be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...
men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...
In five pages this essay presents William Shakespeare's protagonist as a defendant in a contemporary inquest trial in which prosec...
price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...
matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...
Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
a marvelos contrast in dark and light, which is aptly used in a good deal of his plays. Both in Romeo and Juliet and in Othello, t...
receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...
In six pages this paper examines the patriarchal oppression Desdemona experiences in the tragic play Othello by William Shakespear...
In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the resentment he felt towards his father and how t...
In five pages this paper presents a tour that is based on places pertaining to William Shakespeare's tragic play including Mantua ...
This ten page paper addresses eight specific quesitons on Shakespeare's play. Two sources....
In six pages this paper examines the tragic consequences of the bombing of Philadelphia's MOVE group enclave on May 13, 1985. Nin...
In a paper consisting of nine pages the cause of this tragic crash by the horizontal stabilizer failure of a jackscrew gimbal nut ...
in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an ensea...
In five pages this paper examines these two poems in terms of Rilke's presentation of the hero and child relationship and Kinnell'...