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very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...

"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...

In a paper consisting of five pages the playwright's life is discussed and then his play is examined in order to determine that 'U...

In six pages this research paper considers the playwright's Holocaust observations and how they contribute to the play's meaning. ...

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which the playwright's life is reflected in his most famous play are examined. Se...

Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and t...

works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

humanity. They represent this relationship and offer us a very humble and simple setting from which to examine the unfolding saga....

modeled after his own life and experiences, including his relationship with the tormented Marilyn Monroe; however, Miller has neve...

p. 102). As this indicates, Mnesilochus humor is low-brow, earthy and very funny. The crux of the plot soon comes out as Euripide...

a boy. Olivia, on the other hand, is given to extravagant gestures that are designed to emphasize the degree of her grief. She pro...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

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

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...