YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles
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greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...
comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...
is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...
We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...
from the beginning of the novel, the narrators mother expresses her basic disapproval of her daughter. This is why she wants the g...
are par for the course in Angolas history. Other important themes are colonization and dominance. In this case, Portugal would dom...
death into her fictional drama. "The Stone Angel" is particularly interesting in regard to the contemporary way that we vie...
by his effort to reject the constructs that hope to define him. "At Oxford, he carries a teddy bear named Aloysius, whom he scold...
reigns supreme, The Tempest is more contemplative and probes the more sinister side of humankind. The mood, setting, and themes a...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
as a means of insuring the others immortality than it is an _expression of love. Sonnet 130, however, is to a woman, and the rela...
love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...
that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...
why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot" (How the Two Ivans...
March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...
womans place was perceived to be located securely in the private sphere, which she ruled as a domestic goddess, creating a haven o...
It is like a winner-take-all schema that has widened the gap in incomes (Oram, 1999; Dunn, 2000). * When countries are involved in...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...
more many people are punished for not heeding the word of God. There are numerous people and numerous situations presented in G...
twice the size of me" (Kesey 17). As this suggests, Bromden perceives the idea of the "big" man quite literally and sees the force...
clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...
Melquiades is a guide in Aureliano Babilonias quest for knowledge and helps him in regards to deciphering the prophecies. By the e...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes, which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive,...
This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...