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Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally,...

Themes of Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In 5 pages this paper examines this early 1920s' novel in terms of its predominant themes....

Hamlet by William Shakespare and Revenge as Tooo Much of 'a Good Thing'

In five pages the revenge theme in Shakespeare's tragedy is analyzed....

'The Pardoner's Tale' and Avarice

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

Thematic Analysis of 'The Lamb' by William Blake

In three pages this paper discusses creation's divinity as an important theme of the poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake....

After the Season by Jack Hodgins

In five pages this tutorial essay examines the text in terms of the relationship that exists between theme, setting, and character...

Trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Identity

be a journey towards finding himself once again. Now, this is not to say that he will ever become what he once was, for this is im...

Analysis of Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus

Around, around, in airy rings, / They wheel with oarage of their wings" (Agamemnon, 2002). The image of the birds, circling over ...

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

4 Themes in Weiten's Psychology Themes and Variations

In three pages this paper analyzes 4 themes that are featured in this text. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

The Ancient Greek Plays 'Oedipus' and 'Lysistrata'

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the tragedy of Oedipus differs from the comedy Lysistrata. There are 3 additional sources in...

Time, Place, and Action Unities and the Neoclassicism of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...

Films and Technology

- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

Innocence Lost in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

Personality Theory of Sigmund Freud

and political metamorphoses where major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. Wha...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Oedipus Myth and D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

all the necessary stages in that development would be as futile as Oedipuss attempts to challenge the Fates....

Levi Strauss' Myth Analysis by Applying Ferdinand de Saussure's Structural Linguistics

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

The Characters Okonkwo and Oedipus Compared

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

Oedipus and Medea: Leadership and Kingship

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

Two Views of "Oedipus Rex"

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...