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In five pages Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero are contrasted and compared in this analysis of William Shakespeare's Muc...
The portrayals of Cunegonde by Voltaire in Candide and Gertrude by William Shakespeare in Hamlet are contrastes and compared in fi...
and quite unthinkingly into a marriage to his murderer, and was able to ignore the facts and clues that encircled her, pointing to...
a man so much that she would do anything for him-- lie, cry, and eventually die. In many ways, Queen Jocasta submits fully...
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...
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...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...
In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...
In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...
In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...
In five pages this report analyzes how power is featured in these respective works and how they influence the featured characters ...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...
father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...
In three pages this paper analyzes what is meant by Prince Hamlet's 'antic disposition' remark in the first act of William Shakesp...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...
move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...
guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...
way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...
his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...
This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...
his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...