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others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...
good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "Things Fall Apart". Tragic aspects of the novel are emphasized. Paper uses five so...
ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...
reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...
Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...
to what happened and why Kaylas case fell through the cracks, it is only through a thorough analysis of the situation, and the eff...
in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...
plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...
psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...
him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...
this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...
Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...
na?ve Desdemona, he marries her without hesitation or reservation because he believes he has finally found someone with whom he ca...
men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...
she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...
meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...
Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...
as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
rarely the one(s) to actually suffer the injurious act; rather, terrorists have learned it is much more effective to their cause t...
model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...
In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...