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In five pages this paper discusses how these characters featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles can be describes as mythic because th...

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

In six pages this paper examines how literature depicts human nature in a comparative consideration of Hamlet by William Shakespea...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...

and quite unthinkingly into a marriage to his murderer, and was able to ignore the facts and clues that encircled her, pointing to...

In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...