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

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

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 ...

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...

In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

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...

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

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

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

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

that the fact that death is common does nothing to diminish Hamlets grief. Hamlet picks up her use of the words "seems," however, ...

remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...