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the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...

a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...

Dr. Mody and Jehangir get together and Dr. Mody shows his stamps to the boy, Jehangir is incredibly mesmerized. Dr. Mody can see t...

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

after all, they are completely covered, even if they are pushing the limits The second ironical situation is Sammys resignation. ...

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

the literal meaning of utterances that are deemed ironic does affect the perception of the intended meaning. That said, other rese...

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

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

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

all the necessary stages in that development would be as futile as Oedipuss attempts to challenge the Fates....

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...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking 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...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...