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Reality v. Illusion and Appearances in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eleven pages this paper discusses the conflict between reality and illusion and discrepancies pertaining to appearance that man...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Conflicts of Divine vs. Earthly Justice

In six pages the types of justice as defined in this Shakespearean tragedy are considered with the human 'earthly justice' compare...

Identity Search of the Protagonist in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how King Lear's identity search fuels the plot for this Shakespearean tragedy. There are no oth...

Analysis and Study Notes for 'The Excursion' by Wordsworth, The Black Man's Burden by Morel, and The White Man's Burden by Kipling

* Clearly, this poem read today would be interpreted from a different perspective than when it first appeared in 1899. 2. Edward...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Use of Blood Imagery

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

Contemporary Era and Antigone by Sophocles

The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Classical Tragedies of Greece

In five pages this paper examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...

Agamemnon by Aeschylus and Human Sacrifice

In seven pages this paper examines the tragedy by Aeschylus in terms of its shocking thematic featuring of human sacrifice. There...

Medea by Euripides

In five pages Euripides' tragedy is examined in terms of how Medea was ultimately corrupted by her desire for power. There are no...

American Tragedy in the Novels of John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper discusses how the American tragedy concept is thematically manifested in the writings of John Steinbeck. ...

Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner's Presentation of Logical Tragedy

In nine pages this paper examines the necessary logical sequence that evolves in the tragedies of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms a...

Tragedy of Flight 800

In eight pages the tragic crash of Flight 800 is examined in terms of causes and changes in rules and regulations that resulted fr...

Controversy Over the Titanic Tragedy

In eight pages this essay considers the 1912 Titanic sinking in a consideration of its controversy, the unexpected nature of the t...

American Literature and Multiculturalism

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

Problems Associated with Adapting Novels into Films

This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...

Tragedy in Metamorphoses of Ovid

In five pages this paper examines the tragedy that is evident in 'Pyramus and Thisbe' and 'Apollo and Daphne' Metamorphoses by Ovi...

Heroism in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

Irony in Othello by William Shakespeare and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...

Comparative Analysis of 'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's tragedy with the epic by Homer. Five sources are cited in ...

Comparing Homer's Heroes in 'The Iliad'

In this paper containing four pages Achilles and Hektor are compared and it is determined that while Hektor's tragedy is synonymou...

Sight and its Irony in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

the god Apollo sees" but Teiresias has not come (Sophocles 36). This initial perception of Teiresias capacity and Oedipus convict...

Apocolypse Now Film by Director Francis Ford Coppola

In five pages this paper considers the film's parallels with Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and also discusses influences of T...

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper is analyzed in terms of characters and the female characters' role, symbolic elements, and themes such as...

'Mission Control - Politics, Not Size, Is the Real Threat to Megaprojects at NASA' Article Reviewed

In five pages this report discusses the decision making that led to the tragedies of NASA's Apollo I, Apollo Thirteen, and Challen...

Dramatic Structure in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

five-act pattern. The setup creates the plays "world", introduces us to the characters, and lays the groundwork for some of the c...

Soliloquy Analysis of 'To Be or Not to Be' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Ophelia in the process. The burden of these struggles is more than the emotionally fragile prince can bear, and when he utters th...

A Comparison of Two Characters in Shakespearean Literature

This paper compares and contrasts the character Miranda, from The Tempest, with Ophelia of The Tragedy of Hamlet. This five page...

Hesitation of Hamlet in Murdering His Uncle King Claudius

In nine pages this paper examines why Hamlet delayed killing the conspiratorial Claudius in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. ...

Madness Feigned or Real in Ophelia and Hamlet

In twelve pages this paper discusses the presentation of madness in Shakespeare's tragedy as genuine in the character of Ophelia a...