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In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

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...

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...

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

jealousy. His inherent nature does not want him to believe such lies. We see this throughout the story as he is constantly confuse...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

in joining such a group. By discussing books and plays with peers, an individual can hear other opinions on subject matter that h...

This does not, however, imply that Berger is attempting to spark a superficial or sentimental response: despite the...

many are scripted. There is a sameness in terms of quality in what the individual can expect. There is entertainment value in both...

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...