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of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

the reader with picture-perfect images. As one author notes, in regards to this story, "Through joyous rituals, LeGuin outlines pa...

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

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

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

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

who others looked upon with envy, and characters who others judged for their actions and essential character. The paper looks at G...

and interpreted by Freud. It is only with this understanding we can take a more critical look at the case. 2. Little Hanss backgr...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

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

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

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

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...