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The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

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

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

In five pages this paper discusses how these characters featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles can be describes as mythic because th...

This paper consists of nine pages and considers how violence is perpetuated by the gods in Thebiad by Status, Oedipus Rex by Sopho...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

for home,/ She stood in tears amid the alien corn" (Keats 65-67). In contrast Achebes story is about a man who has just obtained...

In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...

This paper contends this important character from Chinua Achebe's novel mirrors the impacts of colonization. There is one source ...

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

but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...

are eradicated by the arrival of Christian missionaries (Achebe 1994). Chimamanda Adichies "The Purple Hibiscus" tells a story si...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...