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Narrative Writing & Shepherd's Christmas Story

defined point of view, which is often that of the author. By giving "specific and sensory details," the author gets the reader inv...

The Shepherd and Oedipus

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

Oedipus Rex: Behavioral Perspective And Interactionist Theory

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

Communities of Violence by David Nirenberg

the Shepherds Crusade, as Nirenberg posits that this was, indeed, the case, that is, that the poor people who enacted the violence...

Pastoral Techniques in 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by Edmund Spenser

In seven pages this paper analyzes the political implications of the use of the pastoral in 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by Edmund Sp...

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

Comparing and Defining Tragic Heroes

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...

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...

Oedipus' problem of Pride

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

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...

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...

15th Century The Second Shepherd's Play

high caliber for semitone to come out of the medieval era and it may best be understood within the environment in which it was wri...

The Second Shepherd's Play and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

if John were easily deceived, Nicholas (the clerk) and Alison (his wife) would not have been forced to devise an complicated plan ...

Oedipus Saga in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonnus

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

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...

The Theme of Tragedy in Oedipus the King and Death of a Salesman

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

Greek Literature and Admirable Character Leadership

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...

Oedipus and Hamlet

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

Sight, Insight, and Vision in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

Creon and Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...

The Tragic Flaw in Oedipus

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

Apollo and Oedipus

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

Hamlet & Oedipus

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

Oedipus the King: Character

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

Oedipus Sealed His Own Tragic Fate

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

King Oedipus Was His Own Worst Enemy

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

Predetermination in “Oedipus Rex”

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

Oedipus and Antigone

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