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

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

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...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

This 5 page essay examines the character Nancy in the book by William Faulkner. 2 sources....

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

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 ...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

depression. She always expresses herself in terms of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have fa...

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Macbeth was elected King in preference to Duncans own son, who was considered...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

In five pages this paper examines how guilt is thematically developed in Macbeth by William Shakespeare. There is no bibliography...

will make our lives complete, and for a while they thought too their lives were complete. They were "fair" indeed. Then as we sta...

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...