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Essays 271 - 300
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...
were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...
and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...
the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...
this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
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...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...
in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...
collected on the same date each month, the 12th. However, even during a day there are a number of different data points which coul...
link between the value of labor input and price of a good (Marx, 1999). The problem with this approach is the way in which it as s...
is made by looking at the trade-off and the margin between the relative transaction costs impacting on the external and internal e...
The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...
nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...
agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...
to cast the issue as a moral wrong is entirely fraudulent: the system is there to be used by those having difficulty finding work,...
Following ascension to the World Trade organization China has displayed impressive economic growth. The writer looks at the strat...
as embracing more than simply the practice of international trade. A useful definition comes from Lubber and Koorevaar, (1998) who...
linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...
have some commonalities are the transformational leadership model, the team leadership model and leader member exchange theory. By...
Is there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday ...
no one knows whether the present economy is a garden-variety Old Economy inventory cycle, or a more serious New Economy collapse t...