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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...

One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...

historical piece in that regard, as are all other Shakespearean plays it would seem. In providing us with this particular time per...

This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares how the unattainable is represented in Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man,' Henrik Ibs...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

with and through broad theological propositions that include the inherent conflict between medieval and Renaissance values (Sisson...

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

psychologist points out that Edgar discusses his own case lucidly, while indulging in unlimited incoherence in regards to everythi...