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and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

point in the piece, the problem with the O-Rings are duly noted and this suggests that perhaps the scientists should have realized...

the people merely accept poverty, gangs and an extensive drug subculture as part of modern urban life. Yet, does the popular media...

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

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

a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...

Gagne, 1983; Lowe and Masseo, 1986 cited in Emery, Summers and Surak, 1996). It focuses the efforts of all members of an organizat...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...

powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

if in answer to his call, Victor looks up to see the figure of a man approaching him. It is the monster. Despite the terrible curs...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

Okonkwos, as seen in the words of another author who notes, "The labour of colonial peoples was exploited on plantations and in mi...

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

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

there is any outstanding debt, the interest on that would also be a fixed expense. The variable costs, on the other hand,...

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

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

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...