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Tragic Characteristics of Oedipus the King

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Symbolism

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

The element of Tragedy in King Lear

when she comes across her father once more, when he is mad and lost and truly a tragic figure, she does the right thing and stands...

Comparison of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III and The Tragedy of King Lear

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

Before the American Revolution, King Philip's War

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Family Dysfunction

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

King Oedipus Was His Own Worst Enemy

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

'Pet Cemetery' by Stephen King and the Acceptance of Death

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...

Similarities Between 'Death of a Salesman' and 'Oedipus The King'

will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a significant and essential ro...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Precepts of Niccolo Machiavelli

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Human Nature According to Martin Luther King Jr. Albert Camus, and Elie Wiesel

4). More and more cases of ill people and dead rats keep turning up, urging Dr. Rieux and Castel to become more certain that wh...

William Shakespeare's King Henry V and Hamlet Directed by Sir Laurence Olivier

for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...

Nonviolent Philosophies of Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau

a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....

Princess Medea and King Gilgamesh

until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

Harris, Customer Service Management, and Making the Customer 'King'

The strategic plan feeds directly from the motto. The first step is to identify the needs of the customers. Initial input from pha...

King Gilgamesh's Epiphany

I fear death, and now roam the wilderness-- I will set out to the region of Utanapishtim, son of Ubartutu, and will go with utmost...

Jill Lepore's The Name of War and King Philip's War

the war with King Philip are addressed as well as the Native Americans view of the outcome of the war. Both the Prologue and the E...

Trickster's Significance in Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

harsh stereotypical realities. The introduction, effect and capacity of these tricksters serve to demarcate the stereotypical nat...

A King David Hotel Marketing Analysis

to ensure a uniformly high level of service and top quality personnel and management" (2003). This standard is achieved via profes...

Evaluating King Henry IV Through Machiavellian and Other Perspectives

King of France in 1589 (2000). He was raised in the Protestant faith and "he settled the religious question by adopting Catholicis...

Family Conflicts in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and William Shakespeare's Othello

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and Sacrifice

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

Overview of King Philip's War

they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

Relationship Between the Plays Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus the King

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Its Mystery

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...