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Newspapers have played an incredibly important role in world history. For the last five hundred years of so, in fact, newspapers ...

Homosexuals and Muslims in Contemporary Society The author of this paper considers the importance of the choice of words in repor...

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

In seven pages this paper discusses such global events as sect to established religion transition, Medieval Christianity and Europ...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

psychosexual connection male and female children have with their gender corresponding parent; building upon what Freud deemed as n...

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

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

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

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

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...

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

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...

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...

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

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...