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

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

that the fact that death is common does nothing to diminish Hamlets grief. Hamlet picks up her use of the words "seems," however, ...

acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...

In eight pages singer Hector Lavoe's tragic life and contributions to Latino music are examined. Six sources are cited in the bib...

In ten pages this paper examines the tragedy and comedy elements that each exist in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespea...

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

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

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...

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

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

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

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

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

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

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

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 ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

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

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...