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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...

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

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...

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

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...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

it is forecast to grow at a rate of 6.95% through 2009 ("Regional Overview"). (The only explanation for the disparity between the ...

never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...

This 3 page paper looks at the way in which King George III was influenced and influenced The Enlightenment with interests in scie...

and Akhenaton died.3 (It would have been difficult for him to become king before they died, wouldnt it?) In addition, seals found ...

level-when Regan vomits in the priests face ... in The exorcist ... But on another, more potent level, the work of horror really i...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

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

"His sentiment All is number. God is a number. God is in All. is an intriguing way to catalogue the Mayas message that we are inti...

For example, when Jesus metaphorically gives Peter the "keys to the kingdom," Jesus refers to a verse in Isaiah that speaks of the...

the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...

money that he stole from Warden Nortons ill-gotten funds. Eventually Red is paroled and joins Andy in Mexico. Themes : One of the...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

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...

King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

Judah had become prosperous under the reign of king Uzziah who tended to assimilate the land with neighbors, who oppressed the poo...

graphic violence, others praised the realism, while some questioned whether war is really like that at all" (Haflidason, 2000). Th...

the Jungian archetypes developed through the influence of the ring. Its quite clear and specific, and he argues the point well. T...

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...

Question 2 Looking at the higher level of variety that was seen in the Burger King product compared to the McDonalds product this...

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

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...

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

a religious leader to one ruled by a king, that is, a political leader. Sauls downfall as a ruler is considered to be tragic in th...