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The use of irony by Burgess in his novel is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages and includes the impact of dramatic a...

In five pages this paper examines how King Lear's identity search fuels the plot for this Shakespearean tragedy. There are no oth...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...

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

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

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

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....

In three pages the emotional conflicts that are based in anger are examined in terms of the protagonists behavior' and the importa...

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

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

when she comes across her father once more, when he is mad and lost and truly a tragic figure, she does the right thing and stands...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. Love in this connection means understanding good will as expressed in the Greek...

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

law is no law at all" (King, 2001). Dr. King also refers to the Bible and how Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

In three pages King and Marx are contrasted and compared with the writer ultimately concluding that Martin Luther King's notions o...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a significant and essential ro...

In five pages this paper examines the King's role in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and William Shakespeare's King Lear. The...

In a paper consisting of three pages the protagonist's distinguishing between appearances and reality is assessed in these works b...