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Hurricane Katrina Tragedy and Race

one assumes, in moments of crisis like that that has befallen New Orleans" (Lowry, 2005). Jason DeParle sees things quite anothe...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Its Mystery

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Suffering of Women and the Patriarchy in The Trojan Women by Euripides

of heroism in combat as they fought for noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in th...

Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit

of money and they will all essentially be wealthy. In the end the townspeople kill this man so they will receive the money....

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Use of Blood Imagery

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Hamlet and the Film Adaptations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these 1948 and 1996 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy with the ...

Leontes in A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

In five pages Sicilia's King Leontes is analyzed in terms of his character's functions in Shakespeare's tragedy. Five sources are...

Shakespeare and Sophocles, Tragedy, and Heroism

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

American Tragedy of School Violence

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. growing problem of school violence, which is an unfortunate byproduct of American soci...

Edward Albee's Tragic Play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

tortured marriage. The world of George and Martha is a closed, stagnant environment. It is filled with highly destructive element...

Oedipus and Gilgamesh Compared

The tragedies these leaders experience that lead them onto a path of self knowledge are the focus of this paper consisting of five...

1993 Waco, Texas Seize and How It Went Wrong

it. While Koresh may be at fault for many of his actions, it is the FBI and the ATF who are at real fault for the tremendous loss...

The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare and the Evil Protagonist

In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....

Roman and Greek Tragedies Compared

Thyestes and his brother were rivals for the throne of Mycenae. Atreus was married to Aerope. Thyestes seduced Aerope. He was a...

Burke Litwin Model Used to Assess the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

wide range of potential categories of issues" (2002 LaRC Organizational Performance Survey, 2003; p. A6) such as was the case in t...

First Soliloquy of Lady Macbeth

In seven pages this tragedy by William Shakespeare is examined within the context of Lady Macbeth's first soliloquy and its signif...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Influence of Seneca

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

Desdemona's Murder in Othello by William Shakespeare

really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....

An Analysis of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

Contemporary Era and Antigone by Sophocles

The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Summary and Review of 'A Gift of Hope'

second section called Survival Strategies, contains 5 parts and seems to be the meat of this book. The first part is entitled Pres...

Lord and Lady Macbeth's Relationship in William Shakespeare's Tragedy

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Growth

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

'The Haunted Palace' by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...