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King Oedipus By Sophocles

... The people of Thebes are informed that there is an impending curse upon them as a result of the murder mystery of their previous king, Laius. In order to quicken the cure, Oedipus calls on Teiresias, the blind prophet to aide them. Excessive pride fuels his inability to believe the prophecy of Teiresias stating Oedipus is the killer, and that he has married his mother. “Until I came – I, ignorant Oedipus, came – and stopped the riddler’s mouth, guessing the truth by mother-wit, not bird-love.” Because he continually boasts about ho ...

Number of words: 852 | Number of pages: 4

The Merchant Of Venice Essay

... whether or not he should seek a new employer. Launcelot’s problem is that he works for Shylock, who is Jewish. Launcelot persuades himself that, “Certainly the Jew [Shylock] is the very devil incarnation…” (2.2.24) Eventually, Launcelot convinces himself that he would much rather run away than be ruled by a Jew. Launcelot presents this argument to his father: “I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer.” (2.2.104) Before Launcelot accepts a new job with Bassanio as his master, he is reminded that Ba ...

Number of words: 582 | Number of pages: 3

Scarlet Letter Symbolism

... has sinned, but is forgiven. Hawthorne portrays Hester as "divine maternity" and she can do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful cloth ...

Number of words: 510 | Number of pages: 2

Good Vs. Evil In Treasure Isla

... Silver to bring out this identicalidea. Long John Silver in many ways can be viewed the classic villain. But, whilereading this novel, one must be aware of the many other facets of Silver’spersonality that bring out his good nature. In Treasure Island and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, Robert Louis Stevenson incorporates the theme “Good vs. Evil” in both of these stories through the split personalities of both Long John Silver, and Dr. Jekyll. Robert Louis Stevenson’s theme of “G ...

Number of words: 2634 | Number of pages: 10

From Dirt To Duchess

... He is the one who instituted the bet in which he boasted that he could turn her into a lady. He helped the transformation of Eliza into a lady by pushing her to the brink of exhaustion during her studies of the English Language. This made her stronger physically, but made her resent him. Also, his teachings helped shape her into that of a duchess. Another person responsible for the changes in Eliza was Mrs. Pierce. Her involvement was more with Eliza’s appearance, rather than her personality. It was Mrs. Pierce who bathed Eliza th ...

Number of words: 400 | Number of pages: 2

Hesiod And The Ascent Of Zeus

... Gaia had eighteen other children. Among them are Okeanos, Iapetos, Rhea, Tethys, Kronos, the Kyklopes, and the "hundred-handers." Ouranos hated his children at first sight, so he kept them trapped inside the earth and would not let them "rise to the light" (Theog. 157). But this caused Gaia great pain. She created a sickle from a new form of metal, then went and asked her children for help. Kronos, the "clever devisor" (Theog. 168), was the only child who spoke up. Kronos follows his mother's plan, cuts off Ouranos's genitals and throw ...

Number of words: 1338 | Number of pages: 5

Justice In The Republic

... the two agree “that it is never just to harm anyone” (Republic 335d). This definition is fundamental to the idea of a common good, for harming people according to Socrates, only makes them “worse with respect to human virtue” (Republic 335 C). Polemarchus also allows for the possibility of common good through his insistence on helping friends. To Polemarchus nothing is more important than his circle of friends, and through their benefit he benefits, what makes them happy pleases him. Upon the summation of the debate betwe ...

Number of words: 999 | Number of pages: 4

Awakening Vs. Greenleaf

... Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1948) believed that humankind follows a certain evolution of mind and body. This process involves a beginning (komogenese), a development (biogenese), and then a peak (noogenese) in which humans reach an Omega Point of higher being. Though his ideas were actually applied on a much broader scale of humanity over a large timespan, the theory can be applied to the individual’s process of human development. Single humans begin as common clones of one another. From this commonality many examine their liv ...

Number of words: 2146 | Number of pages: 8

The Forgotten Door

... his dinner, but it was illegal to hunt anyway. Mr. and Mrs. Gilby pulled Jon up to their truck and yelled at him for being on their property, but they would not let Jon talk and tell his part of the story. Jon squirmed away, ran like the wind, and jumped over a high fence; Mr. and Mrs. Gilby were amazed. He ran for awhile until he came to a cliff that went down to a road. When he started going down the cliff he slipped and the next thing he knew he was lying down in the middle of the road. A family named the Beans drove down the road ...

Number of words: 510 | Number of pages: 2

Shakespearean Comedy

... play with a totally different tone. Comparing and contrasting these three plays will help us to understand what Shakespeare thought comedy was in the 1600's and to see if our views on comedy are the same today. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a festive comedy. The play takes place in June and this is a bewitched time. In the spring the custom is to celebrate the return of fertility to the earth. During this time the young people spend the night in the woods to celebrate. Shakespeare uses the greenworld pattern in this play. The play begins ...

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Aristotle Virtue Theory

... activities. Humans are the only life forms that have a soul, the source of rationality. Thus, humans have a duty to always use their intellect. Three things are found in the soul: emotions, capacities, and characteristics. Emotions are things humans feel, like anguish or happiness, that are followed by pain or pleasure. Capacities are a person’s ability or capacity to experience or express something. Since people are not considered good or bad based on their emotions, virtue cannot be an emotion. Virtue is not a capacity either, because virt ...

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A Farwell To Arms- Book Report

... autobiographical. Hemingway , like his hero, was a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I. Not only was Hemingway wounded in the war, but he also recuperated in a hospital in Italy. During his recuperation, Hemingway had a very romantic liaison with a nurse. The relationships between the characters in the novel, including doctors, soldiers, etc., reflect the actual relationships Hemingway had during his stay in Italy, and the plot of the story is historically as well as geographically accurate. Before Ernest H ...

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