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Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

No More, No More by Daniel Walker

express themselves on a wide range of topics, which included such issues as moral justice and the nature of community. For example...

Criticism on the Democracy Objections of Friedrich Nietzsche

he had the same words of contempt. Under an absolute monarchy, he believed, the military or law-enforcing caste was unduly exalte...

D.H. Lawrence/The Piano

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

Dalai Lama/The Universe in a Single Atom

spiritual enlightenment. The central message of Buddhism is that all creatures, one of great intelligence, and even those that w...

Husband and Wife Oedipus and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau

(La Machine Infernale), Oedipus is a man of great looks with an ego to match, but of what could best be described as limited intel...

Four Views On Hell

one harmonize the concept of a loving, gracious God with a God who is righteous and unforgiving" (Walvoord 11). Walvoord admits th...

The Impact of Enron on the View of Whistle Blowers in the Corporate Environment

the market to the scope and scale of the scandal, but the way in which it impacted on individuals personally and received a great ...

Ecclesiology/Reformation & Great Awakening

writing The Pagan Servitude of the Church, which is also known as The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Luther states overtly th...

Hesse & Le Guin/Views on Dichotomy

finds it difficult to escape from his lifetime habit of dichotomous thinking when it comes to gender. Therefore, he tends to think...

Oedipus and Gilgamesh Compared

The tragedies these leaders experience that lead them onto a path of self knowledge are the focus of this paper consisting of five...

Two Nursing Studies

their experiences following the refresher course during the first six months of employment as a refreshed nurse. Scott, Votova ...

Oedipus in Zeffirelli’s Hamlet

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

Martin Espada: Heart of Hunger and Imagine the Angels of Bread

could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...

Comparing Antigone and Oedipus by Sophocles

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

Family Conflicts in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and William Shakespeare's Othello

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

A Doll's House, Oedipus, Othello, and Family Conflicts

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus and Fortune Reversals

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

Antigone, Oedipus, and the Tragic Hero

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

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Its Mystery

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Lines 954 to 997 in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

Organic Unity Concept of Aristotle's Poetics as Portrayed in Agamemnon and Oedipus the King

In a paper consisting of five pages ways in which organic unity serves as an important function in ths plots of these ancient Gree...

Battle of the Sexes in Lysistrata, Medea, Antigone, Oedipus, and The Oresteia

In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...

Sexual Symbolism in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...

Why the Tragic Hero Label Applies to Oedipus

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

Sight and its Irony in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

the god Apollo sees" but Teiresias has not come (Sophocles 36). This initial perception of Teiresias capacity and Oedipus convict...

Society, Characters, and Crick Crack Monkey and Nectar in a Sieve

In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....