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plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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

enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...

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...

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

In nine pages this conspiracy regarding Burr's plans to invade Louisiana and Mexico are examined. Six sources are cited in the bi...

who tied votes in the presidential race with Jefferson, was cast as second fiddle behind Jeffersons presidency. What had become a...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

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

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

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

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...

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

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...

In eight pages singer Hector Lavoe's tragic life and contributions to Latino music are examined. Six sources are cited in the bib...

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

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "Things Fall Apart". Tragic aspects of the novel are emphasized. Paper uses five so...

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

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...