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the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...
as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arthur, 2004). ...
were formed as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arth...
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...
meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...
model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...
Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...
Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....
she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
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...
Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...
as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...
enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
His pride, which leads him to attempt to save Thebes from a devastating plague by exposing the murderer of his predecessor, King L...
actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...
is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...
assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...
was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...
speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...