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man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

This paper compares and contrasts Shakespeare's original play with Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of Macbeth. This seven page...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

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

This 5 page essay examines the character Nancy in the book by William Faulkner. 2 sources....

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

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

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

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 ...

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...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

depression. She always expresses herself in terms of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have fa...

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

as they seem. It is recommended that the student who is writing about this topic consider that Messina is also the center of law,...

would, therefore, perhaps be useful to look at three of Shakespeares play from the point of view of specific political angles, and...

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

authors literary interpretation, Macbeth reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address human conflict wi...

one day become king of Scotland is music to the warriors ears. He is a respected figure in his homeland, but he (and his ever-per...

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...