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condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

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

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

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

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

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

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

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...

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

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

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

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

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

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

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 ...

compensated for their time. This economic structure teaches children that nothing comes without fair exchange, and validates that...

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

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

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

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Carlito's Way and High Sierra both feature tragic, doomed anti-heroes and the path that led to their destruction. This research pa...

In ten pages this paper examines the tragedy and comedy elements that each exist in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespea...

a tragedy due to the murder, or possible death during rough sex in the park, but the players were of an elite class. Similarly, to...

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...

remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

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