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Tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear

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

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...

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...

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)....

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...

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. ...

'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...

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 ...

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...

Mark Twain's Use of Satire in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

of the Knights of the Round Table and the legend of King Arthur is achieved by Twain in that he juxtaposes the times and belief sy...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

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...

Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare and the Relationship Between Prince Hal and King Henry

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

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...

Moses and Martin Luther King Junior's Styles of Leadership Comparison

was always ready to rush to a city or scene to help demonstrate the power of nonviolence ("King," 2000). In March of 1963, a New Y...

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...

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...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

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...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Justice

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

James Bond Films and Female Protagonists Electra King and Rosa Klebb

Enough" (2000) she poses little threat to him, as her role is different, it is merely to delay and keep him occupied whilst anoth...

Comparing Shakespere's King Lear and As You Like It

country landowner. The last thing Oliver needed was to have his authority challenged in the future by his young brother, armed wi...

Deities and Fate in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....

Supernatural Subtleties in The Shining by Stephen King and Beloved by Toni Morrison

In six pages this report examines the thematic subtleties of the supernatural in these two great works of American fiction. Five ...

Film and TV Adaptations of King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...