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Religion and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

Singer Hector Lavoe's Tragic Life

In eight pages singer Hector Lavoe's tragic life and contributions to Latino music are examined. Six sources are cited in the bib...

Greek Tragedies and the Role of Sacrifice

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

Marital Disintegration in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...

Father Resentment of Prince Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the resentment he felt towards his father and how t...

Tragic Hero Ethan Frome

a tragedy due to the murder, or possible death during rough sex in the park, but the players were of an elite class. Similarly, to...

Ideology and Tragedy of Philadelphia's MOVE Movement

In six pages this paper examines the tragic consequences of the bombing of Philadelphia's MOVE group enclave on May 13, 1985. Nin...

The Tragic Hero in Carlito's Way and High Sierra

Carlito's Way and High Sierra both feature tragic, doomed anti-heroes and the path that led to their destruction. This research pa...

Hamlet is Not the Medieval 2 Dimensional Hero

In five pages this paper considers the tragedy of Hamlet not representing the two dimensions of Medieval heroes who act out of bli...

Patriarchy, Women, and Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines the patriarchal oppression Desdemona experiences in the tragic play Othello by William Shakespear...

Tour information Featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In five pages this paper presents a tour that is based on places pertaining to William Shakespeare's tragic play including Mantua ...

Flight 261 Alaska Airlines Crash

In a paper consisting of nine pages the cause of this tragic crash by the horizontal stabilizer failure of a jackscrew gimbal nut ...

Tragic Hero and Macbeth

its consequences (Hegel as cited in ODair 215). Hegel further argues that all tragic heroes must encounter a pattern of nobilit...

Cinematic Interpretations of Hamlet

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

The Tragic Hero Antigone?

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

Program Proposal on School Violence Prevention

an end to these violent episodes? One of the most logical deductions is that of the new-fangled child rearing practices tha...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Protagonist Comparison in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

Analysis of an Editorial

done in any serious or affective manner. In all honesty, everyone knows that there is a serious crisis taking place as it...

Historical Jesus

Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...

Prince Hamlet's Character Study

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

Sins of Macbeth

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

Freudian Psychoanalysis of the Madness of Prince Hamlet

out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and its Play Development

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

Free Will of Macbeth

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Comparing Antigone and Oedipus by Sophocles

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

A Hypothetical Letter Writen to Othello

an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...

Is Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman a Tragedy?

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...