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In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...

Oliver, the protagonist, is analyzed along with Fagin. There is a sense that realism has been left by the wayside in this eight pa...

The writer of this 5 page paper argues that Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Richard Wright's Native Son, committed murder from f...

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Alex and Angel, the two central men in Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles...

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

In two pages this paper examines Gregor as featured in Kafka's short story with the emphasis upon his loneliness. There is no bib...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

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