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the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

with ethos. This is clearly seen when he then states his credentials, so to speak: "I have the honor of serving as president of th...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

to your six year old daughter why she cant go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see te...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

There are many settings in which nursing can occur within this framework. The most obvious is...

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

have lost it if he did not cater to the "well to do." Perhaps they were the ones with the real power. At the same time, that thesi...

the Kante dynasty killed all of Sundiatas brothers but let Sundiata live in the belief that the sickly child would die anyway, but...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...

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...

Charles married Marie-Therese de Sacoie, and together they had three children (Charles X of France, 2003). First-born was Louis-A...

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...

about many things ranging from bullfighting and big game hunting to political causes such as the Spanish Civil War and World War I...

India has ever had (Khilnani, 2002). This, of course, brings up the question as to why Gandhi is so esteemed, despite her shortcom...

Achilles grief offends the gods. Hera argues that since Achilles is the son of the a goddess, he deserves more honor than Hector,...

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

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...

kingdom among his daughters, he based what they received upon their effusive speeches to him. Goneril and Regan played along and ...