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when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

it is interesting that this name is actually a variant of the name Helga, which means "holy." Joy represents the kind of dichotom...

their histories are defined and how their interactions take place. The play also enhanced my understanding of how physical elemen...

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

This is all part and parcel of the postmodern style employed by the Coens, which they use to great effect. Postmodernism involves ...

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...

This essay cites a specific book, Fundamental Theology by Heinrich Fries. The writer summarizes Chapters 33 and 34. Major themes, ...

similar to the character of Virgil, who, despite occupying a seemingly major role in the Divine Comedy, primarily exists to better...

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at racial themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. The reality of these themes is made apparen...

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

to be time to defrock this innocent waif, and as conceived by Tex Avery, she was now all grown up (was she ever) and more than sui...

Augustine Chapter X). He then notes that he learned many things through such examination concerning his behavior, behavior...

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

as he refers to the way in which climate and geographical features serve to shape human behavior. For example, the Lotus Eaters ar...