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"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

right opposite my place, / And drew the eyes of all the congregation, / To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven; / With deep...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...

more valuable male to another as Amir is in a far better social and economic position than Hassan. While he clearly adores his fri...

positive contribution to a successful life, defined as far more than only financial success as many see it. True success includes...

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

dies and leaves her a widow and it is while mourning him and getting ready for a ceremony that she realizes that although she is s...

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...

King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

be defined only in relation to the men in their lives, not as themselves. That is, they are somebodys wife and somebodys mother, n...

material as they manipulate a puppet. It is considered to be a very powerful form of art and it is considered a great honor for o...

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

simply going along with life in many respects until one day his friend, Ricky, tells him about a play he is going to try out for. ...

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

aspects of life. The opening pages of the novel take us to Jamaica, and they are very evocative. They tell us of the beautiful, l...

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Dave is horrified when he shoots Jenny, but rather than admit what hes done, he makes up some goofy story about her falling and la...

Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is go...

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

or arrogance, in life that would have made him proud to be the subject of a film. Kane was too simple for that in relationship to ...

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...