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both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

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

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 three pages this paper discusses creation's divinity as an important theme of the poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake....

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 seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

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

and in order to protect the city and its citizens, Oedipus was compelled to take drastic action. Also, he wished to cement his re...

In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

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

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

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

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...