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In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

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

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera is evaluated for thematic elements of love and truth. The protagonist Florentino is the focus...

interpretive element of mans world construed - and misconstrued - at will; that something so intangible to human designation yet s...

is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...

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. ...

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

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

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

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...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

In five pages this paper examines the narrative that chronicles the amazing life of onetime slave and feminist activist Sojourner ...

in the continuing fight for womens rights. With the very first line, Truth exposes her defiance toward the systems rules, which, ...

In five pages this report analyzes how power is featured in these respective works and how they influence the featured characters ...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

seek guidance from an oracle. When he returns he tells the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to ...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

in and curse God. He tells his wife, advising her that, just as they accept good from the hand of God, they have to also be willin...

In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...

In 5 pages the recurrences of these motifs in the dramas of ancient Greece are examined in this work by Sophocles. There are 3 so...