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old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

In seven pages these works by Stephen Crane and Homer are examined within the context of the tragic hero and his combat motives. ...

life determined or was it the result of free will? In establishing the answer to this question, it is essential that one understa...

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

This paper analyzes these classic characters, noting the traits that qualify them as tragic heroes. This paper has five pages and...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

poisoned herself at the end is of little consequence to Claudius. But of notable significance is the continued interaction b...

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

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Tom as featured in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Two sources...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

In nine pages American dramatic realism is discussed in an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under Elms and Tennessee Willi...

In five pages these 2 works by physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman are examined in terms of the author's inspirationa...

years because he seems to care a bit for the father of Henry, John of Gaunt. In these respects one can see that Richard II may wel...

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an ensea...

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

The writer argues that Beowulf can be seen as an archetype of the ideal hero, and that his deeds have come to be considered as a m...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in. June, his wife, whose sense of self-worth is...

bathhouse (Ebert, 2002). By indulging themselves with the food, Chihiros parents are transformed into pigs. Osmond (2003) points o...