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

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

In five pages Miller's contention that 'tragedy is the conscience of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly' is analy...

In four pages this paper examines Aristotle's definition of tragedy and its criteria in a consideration of Hamlet and how the play...

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...

In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

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

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

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...

a Dream" speech has, in the years since he delivered it, achieved an almost mythic status, both for its cultural significance and ...

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

on very real problems. As Mrs. Jones poor vision is due to diabetic retinopathy, strict glycemic control is crucial in order to sa...

these characteristics he is able to become a wealthy landowner and politician in the town of Eatonville. In fact, Hurston indicate...

is Jack Burdens transition from a naively simplified form of nihilism he refers to as the "Great Twitch" towards a more realistic ...

This essay offers summation and analysis of Dr. King's famous letter. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...

tragic deaths of Lear and Cordelia. Therefore, many modern readers and critics regard the plays conclusion as being devoid of red...

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...