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In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In eight pages this paper presents a description and analysis of this sonnet by William Shakespeare....

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

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...

In six pages this paper considers any similarities between William Shakespeare and the character Prospero in an analysis of The Te...

In five pages the function and purpose served by Miranda's character in The Tempest by William Shakespeare are analyzed....

is affected by parental behavior. Sometimes, there is no reason other than the childs own psychological makeup. It does not seem t...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

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

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

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...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

over his military service. Shortly after the wedding, he was dispatched to Famagosta, the capital of Cyprus, to battle Turkish fo...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

This paper examines various forms of feminism seen in two works by Shakespeare's, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Aristophanes', Lys...

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

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

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...