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were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...

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

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

his control, or often, the hero will choose this separation for himself. Neo lives in a chosen isolation, but he also chooses to f...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

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

he was the victim of an unspeakable crime: it was prophesied that Laius would die by his sons hand, and so when Oedipus was born, ...

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

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

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

that he could not control it (Marcus 188). On the one hand, there are the critics who claim that Frankenstein had no...

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

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...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

his mother, he fulfills the prophesy. As Oedipus tells the story, one gets the sense that he is more than just a character. He is ...

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...

makes it clear that he considered the ideal life to be of adventure and lofty purpose. In the preface to his first two cantos f...

will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a significant and essential ro...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...