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

him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

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 ...

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

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

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

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...

keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...