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plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

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

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

The murderer is fully aware of the relationships. Also, it is hard to argue that the affairs do not matter. Today, there is a tend...

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

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...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Seger explains why people respond strongly to characters in film when those characters go on a journey that touches the audience. ...

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

cape and superpowers? Someone who follows the dictates of his conscience? Or perhaps someone who overcomes his fear to rise to per...

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

suitors, who grossly outnumber him. Odysseus himself vows that he will fight "while Ive got arrows to defend me", committed to the...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

of the youth that generate that this assessment, that is, his pleasant smile, his eyes, etc. There is a allusion to Narcissus, who...

Television has played a critical role in womens...

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

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

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

as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arthur, 2004). ...

were formed as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arth...

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...

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...

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...

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

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...

(2000) says that Mother Theresa is a good role model. Yet, there are many others who may be considered good role models. Mendelsoh...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...