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Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

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...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

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

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

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...

move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet adaptation with Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 interpret...

is affected by parental behavior. Sometimes, there is no reason other than the childs own psychological makeup. It does not seem t...

In five pages this paper examines the leadership construct and the idea of virtue as it is featured in The Prince by Niccolo Machi...

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...

In five pages a comparison and contrast of how these philosophers perceived political leadership are made by noting the difference...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's depression is consistent with the motivations of his behavior. There are 4 sources c...

In five pages this research paper celebrates the passions of art and politics revealed in various displays of Romantic and Neoclas...

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

In ten pages this paper discusses Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Paine's response in The Rights of Man, ...

In six pages William Shakespeare's protagonist is analyzed in terms of his emotional extremes, which collectively represent his tr...

fact that this protagonist seems to have an identity through his blood. He seeks revenge, but he also seeks to find out who he is ...

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the resentment he felt towards his father and how t...

from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...