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Literature and Fate

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

Characters and Their Motives in Oedipus

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

Free Will and Fate

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

In five pages the characters of Uncle Marcos and Nicolas are contrasted and compared in terms of similarities in relationships, in...

Authority and Its Historical Challenges

This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...

Sophocles' Antigone and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

Oedipus & Creon as Rulers

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

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

Tragic Flaws in Prince Hamlet's Personality

that the fact that death is common does nothing to diminish Hamlets grief. Hamlet picks up her use of the words "seems," however, ...

Things Fall Apart and the Death of a Hero

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

Underlying Themes in 'The Libation-Bearers' by Aeschylus

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

pronounced adornment" (Hardy NA). We note she has innocent eyes, that immediately seem to spell disaster and we also perhaps note ...

Willy Loman's Tragic Fate in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman in a Consideration of What Makes a Tragic Hero

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Aristotle's 'Tragic Hero' and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

Complex of Oedipus

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

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 ...

Oedipus Tragic Hero or Pervert

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

How “Oedipus Rex” Fulfills Aristotle’s Concepts of Tragedy

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

Oedipus: Tragic Hero

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Tragedy and Comedy

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

Truth and King Oedipus of Thebes

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

Tragic Greek Heroes Oedipus and Prometheus

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

Shakespeare and Sophocles, Tragedy, and Heroism

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

Oedipus's Struggle in Sophocles' Oedipus the King

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...