SEARCH RESULTS

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...

Once on the throne a Prince will have enormous power. But how does he keep this power? Machiavelli addresses this topic by stating...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the topic of the purpose of Hamlet's Ghost. Citing textual evidence, the writer sho...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

In five pages the tragic flaws of these Emily Bronte characters as revealed to be their dissatisfaction with self are examined. T...

In five pages this paper analyzes Romeo Montague's fatal personality flaw as depicted in the tragic play Romeo and Juliet by Willi...

the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

In six pages this essay seeks to better understand the French Revolution through an application of the theories contained in Machi...

In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...

a noble falls, he takes a lot of people with him. Thats true here, where Othellos suspicion results in his destruction, as well as...

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...

as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...