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assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

His pride, which leads him to attempt to save Thebes from a devastating plague by exposing the murderer of his predecessor, King L...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...

almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

to what happened and why Kaylas case fell through the cracks, it is only through a thorough analysis of the situation, and the eff...

1. "Should the wronged party be compensated by the other party for the wrong"? If the answer to that question is yes,...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

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

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

inter-relationships of family, sexuality, and social mobility, are discussed an illuminated as well as the history of Bourbon rule...

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

na?ve Desdemona, he marries her without hesitation or reservation because he believes he has finally found someone with whom he ca...

It means that anyone is capable of killing for example. In any event, in using this definition, it seems more likely that indeed,...

plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...