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Oedipus Rex: Behavioral Perspective And Interactionist Theory

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

The Hero’s Journey: Moses and Jesus

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

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

Oedipus' problem of Pride

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

Oedipus & Creon as Rulers

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Truth and King Oedipus of Thebes

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Milton/Satan in Paradise Lost

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

Complex of Oedipus

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

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

Tragedy in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this essay discusses the tragic elements of Oedipus the King in terms of plot, the Chorus' role, plot elements, and ...

Oedipus's Struggle in Sophocles' Oedipus the King

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

Free Will or Determinism in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...

Dramatic Tragedy and How It Has Evolved

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

Truth Blinds Oedipus Rex: A Protagonist Analysis

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus, and Heroes

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

Prince Hamlet of Denmark and King Oedipus of Thebes

In eight pages these tragic heroes created by William Shakespeare and Sophocles are contrasted and compared. Eight sources are ci...

The Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...

Darl as a Tragic Hero in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

The Story of Alvar Cabeza De Vaca y Nunez

In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....

William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Hamlet

In nine pages this paper analyzes the tragic hero aspects of Hamlet's character in a consideration that also includes Shakespeare'...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Tragic Hero Marcus Brutus

contradictions of his character. Certainly, Brutus is strong. Even his name conveys strength. He is idealistic, and at least in...

Tragic Protagonists Othello and Oedipus

those ruled by determinism. Having grasped the meaning behind Oedipus the King and Othello, it can easily be argued that Oedipus ...

King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, and Their Tragic Flaws

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....

Tragic Elements of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....

Tragic Hero Exemplified by William Shakespeare's Othello

This paper discusses why Shakespeare's protagonist sufficiently qualifies as being a tragic hero in a consideration of the charact...

Defining the Tragic Hero in William Shakespeare's Othello

man who seeks respectability in a white mans society. Despite his many military victories and his marriage to Senator Brabantios ...

Morality and Mortality in Hamlet and Achilles

In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...

Mythology Issues

The three elements of mythology such as the popular literary motif of the tragic hero, the treatment of women, and the comparing o...