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Personality Theory of Sigmund Freud

and political metamorphoses where major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. Wha...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Gods and Oedipus

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

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...

Cultural Values in History

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....

Tragedy Concepts

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

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

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...

Irony in "Oedipus the King"

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 and Medea: Leadership and Kingship

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

What is Tragic Destiny?

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

Hamlet and Oedipus as Avengers

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...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

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...

Chopin/Story of an Hour

is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Guilt of Sam and Lonnie in Violating the Offence Against the Person Act of 1861

would ultimately manifest in her later on. The following criteria, submitted for reform measures of the existing Act, must be pre...

Raymond Carver/"Little Things" and "Mine"

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

Poe and The Masque of the Red Death

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

Three Evidentiary Examples of O.J. Simpson’s Guilt

of the murder? III. O.J. Simpsons Leather Gloves A.) A pair of distinctive extra-large leather gloves with distinctive stitc...

Guilt Innocence Justice

Our criminal justice system has been established to determine the guilt or innocence of those accused of a crime and to punish tho...

"Guilt and Atonement," Njabulo S. Ndebele/A Rhetorical Analysis

was now a friend" (Ndebele 336-337). Furthermore, the enemy "still holds the keys" and "haggles over conditions" to suit his purpo...

Guilt of the Survivor

In nine pages this paper examines the psychological difficulties that accompany surviving a catastrophic event such as war, a na...

Guilt or Innocence in Robert Blake's Murder Case

is important for the student to realize how the inherent fallibility of first-hand testimony has been the focus of myriad debates,...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Guilt of Queen Gertrude

In five pages this paper discusses how the play's text reveals the Danish queen to be guilty of adultery and murder conspiracy in ...

Guilt or Innocence of Socrates

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Socrates was innocent or guilty of the crimes alleged by his accusers. Five sourc...

Religion and Guilt in Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler

In 5 pages this paper critiques Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler in an assessment of its weaknesses and strengths. There is 1 source cit...

Guilt of Hamlet in Mel Gibson's Film Adaptation

In 5 pages this paper analyzes how Hamlet's revenge transformed him into a man very much like his adversary Claudius as represente...

The Roots of American Guilt and Prejudice

In a paper consisting of eight pages the effects of prejudice and injustice that have culminated in acts of genocide within the Un...

Jewish Culture and Guilt in The Ghost Writer and Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

life, my only life, and Im living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke -- only it aint no joke!" (35...

Debating the Innocence or Guilt of Greek Philosopher Socrates

This paper consists of eight pages and considers the injustice of the trial Socrates received in an attempt to determine whether o...