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Innocence and Guilt in 'Oedipus Tyrannus'

he was the victim of an unspeakable crime: it was prophesied that Laius would die by his sons hand, and so when Oedipus was born, ...

Theme of Innocence/Catcher in the Rye

answers both in the affirmative and negative to this question, primarily due to Holden reactions towards Jane (Takeuchi "Salinger...

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

Desdemona’s Innocence of Any Wrongdoing in William Shakespeare’s Othello

flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Holden, Mental Illness

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Discrimination and Innocence

yet this innocence is rejected by the culture in which he finds himself; therefore, he is marked as "guilty", and it is revealed h...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

Chimney Sweeper

another boy who is bald and who cries. This boy has a dream which is very innocent and very uplifting for the boy for in that drea...

William Blake’s Poems

being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...

Innocence and Its Burdens

in love, but "the happiness that should have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flauber...

Proving Innocence After Conviction Using DNA

Criminal justice is faced with many challenges when it comes to insuring that those accused of crimes are properly prosecuted....

DNA Testing, Exoneration

This paper concerns Marvin L. Anderson, who spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The writer discusses how ...

The Loss of Innocence in the Book Night

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the book by Elie Weisel called Night. This paper includes the loss of his faith, his family...

Lord of the Flies and Loss of Innocence

This paper examines William Golding's postwar novel within the thematic context of the loss of innocence in 3 pages. There is 1 s...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

Innocence and Experience in Blake's Poem

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Blake's The Chimney Sweeper. The Innocence and Experience versions of the poem are ...

Jonathan Swift/A Modest Proposal

"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...

Eight Factors Of Irony And Complexity: Influence Upon Cycles In Mexican History

establishing Mexicans as "people of corn." There are a number of issues associated with corn and its historical influence over th...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Flannery O'Connor/Good Country People

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

Taming of the Shrew & Trope of Irony

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

Swift's Use of Irony in "A Modest Proposal"

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

The Use of Irony in Fences by August Wilson

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

Verbal Irony and Intimacy

the literal meaning of utterances that are deemed ironic does affect the perception of the intended meaning. That said, other rese...

Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon' and Irony

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

Irony in "Oedipus the King"

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

Updike: "A&P"

after all, they are completely covered, even if they are pushing the limits The second ironical situation is Sammys resignation. ...

Irony and Paradox in 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison and 'On the Rainy River' by Tim O'Brien”

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...