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When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

their histories are defined and how their interactions take place. The play also enhanced my understanding of how physical elemen...

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

This is all part and parcel of the postmodern style employed by the Coens, which they use to great effect. Postmodernism involves ...

it is interesting that this name is actually a variant of the name Helga, which means "holy." Joy represents the kind of dichotom...

similar to the character of Virgil, who, despite occupying a seemingly major role in the Divine Comedy, primarily exists to better...

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at racial themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. The reality of these themes is made apparen...

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...

This essay cites a specific book, Fundamental Theology by Heinrich Fries. The writer summarizes Chapters 33 and 34. Major themes, ...

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

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

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...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

are" (MMR, 2005, p. 40). This is one of the controls the company uses with their top managers to constantly improve. It is essent...

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

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

the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...