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birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

rarely the one(s) to actually suffer the injurious act; rather, terrorists have learned it is much more effective to their cause t...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

meanings of friendship and death. Gilgamesh was a solitary soul until he encountered the primitive nature man Enkidu, with whom h...

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

view. The ambitious virtues that Beowulf embodies are representative of the earnest attempts required for such characters of this...

see that Harry is not perfect because he is not filled with self confidence, nor is he incredibly knowledgeable about his gifts of...

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...

than allow King Arthur to do this. He journeys to the Green Knight and encounters many adventures on the way. When he ultimately m...

nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodents, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask" (Ebert). For...

there are some wars that "must" be fought, they we will probably agree with Clevinger: that everyone is caught up in the war and h...

that would make him a hero. He does not make powerful decisions and he does not truly step outside any realm within himself or soc...

The murderer is fully aware of the relationships. Also, it is hard to argue that the affairs do not matter. Today, there is a tend...

almost all of them are loners. Even when they are surrounded by a large group of people, there is this inner stoicism, this inner ...

university-trained expert in his field. And yet he finds that intellectual learning is not very important in this world, whats nee...

destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

the every day people who live, work and form the community, from stay-at-home moms who mold their families, to fire-fighters, who ...

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...