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men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...

almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

a marvelos contrast in dark and light, which is aptly used in a good deal of his plays. Both in Romeo and Juliet and in Othello, t...

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...

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

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...

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

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

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

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

over Germany. Meanwhile, the United States, who possessed the only natural deposits of helium became more and more suspicious. As ...

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

done in any serious or affective manner. In all honesty, everyone knows that there is a serious crisis taking place as it...