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lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

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

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

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 ...

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 the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "Things Fall Apart". Tragic aspects of the novel are emphasized. Paper uses five so...

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...

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...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

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

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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...

enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...

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...

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

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

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

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...

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

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

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....