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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...

historical piece in that regard, as are all other Shakespearean plays it would seem. In providing us with this particular time per...

One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares how the unattainable is represented in Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man,' Henrik Ibs...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

with and through broad theological propositions that include the inherent conflict between medieval and Renaissance values (Sisson...

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...