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powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Gagne, 1983; Lowe and Masseo, 1986 cited in Emery, Summers and Surak, 1996). It focuses the efforts of all members of an organizat...

Marshal of Spain. Lorenzo and Horatio captured Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, during battle. The King of Spain has...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

fair I might have provd me wise:/ But I did think because I knew me chaste,/ One virtue for a woman might suffice./ That mind for ...

II. Although Frankl and his family were prominent community members at the time of the Holocaust, Frankl in fact was a noted psyc...

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

special gift or special beauty. Most people have something about them that is not quite pretty or handsome. Most people have clear...

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...