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almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

a marvelos contrast in dark and light, which is aptly used in a good deal of his plays. Both in Romeo and Juliet and in Othello, t...

This essay reports the explanations of each of the Ten Commandments are interpreted by one scholar in a book. Other topics include...

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

their first contact with Europeans these people have literally been under attack. From approximately 1640 to the present date, w...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

His pride, which leads him to attempt to save Thebes from a devastating plague by exposing the murderer of his predecessor, King L...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the world order has been impacted by Germany's 1990 reunification and considers such topi...

In three pages this essay discusses how America's intention of introducing the world to democracy infringes upon people's rights t...

In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

In this essay consisting of two pages the writer presents the argument that Okonkwo's failure to conform to society in all matters...

In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...

In two pages this paper discusses the heroines of The Thousand and One Nights and 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of how they att...

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

In two pages this paper discusses how a nurse should handle the emotional involvement of treating a terminally ill child and how t...

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

The three elements of mythology such as the popular literary motif of the tragic hero, the treatment of women, and the comparing o...

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

In five pages Octavius Caesar, Enobarbus, Cleopatra, and Antony are analyzed in order to determine which emerges as the most tragi...