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Sophocles, Williams and Society Considering Society and Times in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie"

The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...

Heroism and its Characteristics

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

Food's Basic Chemistry

In thirteen pages this paper examines polymer and lipid composition and their role in food chemistry along with the roles of pecti...

4 Historical Cases on Citizen and Race in the United States

and his lawyers took the case to the Supreme Court. By a majority of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott could not bring a...

Antigone and the Old Testament

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

Philoctetes by Sophocles

In five pages this paper examines the cunning Odysseus in this work by Sophocles. There are no other sources cited....

Functionalist Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

In five pages this research paper examines the functionalist anthropological perspectives of Radcliffe Brown and Malinowski in a c...

Arrogance and Oedipus Rex

In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...

Jim Crow's Emergence and Decline

The Jim Crow laws are examined in five pages in an overview of the 'separate but equal' 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court deci...

Faith and the Victorian Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning

In three pages this paper examines how faith is represented in the Victorian poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning. ...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

U.S. Legal Cases Regarding Citizenship and Race

In six pages this paper discusses 4 landmark U.S. cases regarding citizenship and race issues including 1857's Dred Scott v. Sandf...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Motifs of Sight, Blindness, Darkness, and Light

In 5 pages the recurrences of these motifs in the dramas of ancient Greece are examined in this work by Sophocles. There are 3 so...

Literature and Social Isolation

In seven pages this paper considers how social isolation is represented in Philoctetes by Sophocles, Apology by Plato, and Night b...

October 1859 Harpers Ferry Raid and John Brown

In five pages this paper discusses the infamous antislavery raid abolitionist John Brown organized in the Virginia town of Harpers...

Poetic Skepticism

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how social and religious skepticism is poetically portrayed by Robert Browning in ...

'The Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning

In five pages these Robert Browning poems are analyzed in terms of their characterization, symbolism, and tone. Five sources are ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Temptation

In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...

Whistle Blowing in the Workplace

In ten pages this paper examines workplace whistle blowing in which there are few winners and many losers with Koch Industries and...

Antigone by Sophocles

In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...

Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall and Selina's Assimilation Quest

is never easy, and, as the reader of Brown Girl, Brownstones soon realizes, coming of age on the cusp of two cultures as a black f...

Styles of Poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning

human emotions or actions to nature or inanimate objects. Porphyrias Lover (Robert Browning) We might label this dramatic monolo...

Perspectives on Radical Social Consciousness

searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." * William McPherson, The Washington Post Bury My Heart at Wounded K...

Literary Classics and Human Nature

In five pages this paper examines how human nature is featured in classic literary works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, and...

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

Goodman Brown 'Dark Side'

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

Irony in the Greek Tragedy Oedipus the King

In four pages this paper discusses the dominance of the all powerful Greek mythological gods within the context of this tragedy by...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and the Ancient Greek Gods

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...

Contemporary Poetry, Symbolism, Naturalism, Realism, and Romanticism

In five pages this paper discusses how the elements of symbolism, naturalism, realism, and romanticism are found in works by Willi...

4 Western Literary Works and Free Will

In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...