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In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...

In twenty four pages this research paper presents a comparison between 3 C.S. King award winning books with 3 that are John Newber...

In this research paper consisting of 5 pages, the Oedipal overtones of the relationships between Jack Burden and his mother and Ha...

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

those police officers who do not cheat and make an example in response to claims of corruption in the department. As a result, th...

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

was constructed of many different compounds. For example, there is limestone and also granite, a piece of which served as the entr...

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

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

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

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

This paper compares historical revision through theater and other factors to the way the various stories differ in regard to incid...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned...

they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...

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...

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

knew who he was. He relied on the fact that people loved and adored him. For the most part we, as readers and people with knowledg...

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...

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, ...

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

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...