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Ophelia and Antigone

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

Witches' Role in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Its Pleasurable Aspects

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

Arthur Miller's Tragedy Death of a Salesman

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

King Oedipus Was His Own Worst Enemy

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

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

"Hamlet" and Suicide as an Important Theme

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

The Tragedy of Africa

ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...

Truth Blinds Oedipus Rex: A Protagonist Analysis

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

Othello's Elements of Tragedy

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

Enlightenment Views of the Reason vs. Emotion in Phadra by Jean Racine

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

The Moment of Catharsis in Macbeth

that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...

Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman as a Poor Role Model for Biff and Happy

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

The People Of 9/11

rarely the one(s) to actually suffer the injurious act; rather, terrorists have learned it is much more effective to their cause t...

Character Analysis of Creon from Antigone

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

Warrior in the Primal Village: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

than allow King Arthur to do this. He journeys to the Green Knight and encounters many adventures on the way. When he ultimately m...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

Kurtz as Hero in The Heart of Darkness

that would make him a hero. He does not make powerful decisions and he does not truly step outside any realm within himself or soc...

The Modern Vampire

nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodents, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask" (Ebert). For...

Heroes: Mary Cassatt

in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...

Beowulf: Epic Hero Or Not?

view. The ambitious virtues that Beowulf embodies are representative of the earnest attempts required for such characters of this...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

see that Harry is not perfect because he is not filled with self confidence, nor is he incredibly knowledgeable about his gifts of...

Warriors Across Time

granted authority" (Knox, 1990, p. 33). Hector is a man of peace born into a time of war, and therefore forced to fight (Knox, 1...

Gilgamesh vs. Odysseus: Epic Dissimilarities

meanings of friendship and death. Gilgamesh was a solitary soul until he encountered the primitive nature man Enkidu, with whom h...

Hector of Troy

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Women’s Television Programming

Television has played a critical role in womens...