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since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...

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

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...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

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...

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...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

than allow King Arthur to do this. He journeys to the Green Knight and encounters many adventures on the way. When he ultimately m...

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

The murderer is fully aware of the relationships. Also, it is hard to argue that the affairs do not matter. Today, there is a tend...

nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodents, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask" (Ebert). For...

that would make him a hero. He does not make powerful decisions and he does not truly step outside any realm within himself or soc...

see that Harry is not perfect because he is not filled with self confidence, nor is he incredibly knowledgeable about his gifts of...

in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...

view. The ambitious virtues that Beowulf embodies are representative of the earnest attempts required for such characters of this...

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...