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- 3061: The Fate of King Oedipus
- ... on his parentage at the oracle of Apollo. The oracle, though, gives him a horrific prediction. Which is that he will kill his father and sleep with his mother, which are the two most inconceivable crime in a Greek family. After hearing this he flees Corinth and heads toward Thebes believing to of left his father behind in case the oracle was right. However, the god Apollo has somewhat tricked him ...
- 3062: Hamlet: A Review
- ... was sleeping peacefully in his garden. Subsequently his murderer succeeded in taking over his victim's throne by marrying the sexy queen dowager. Thus, there is enough to revenge: anyhow, a fratricide is a disgusting crime. Coupled with a sexual relationship that by the ethics of the time was considered as incest. But worst of all: it is a regicide, which to an Elizabethan was outright sacrilege. Though Hamlet is fully ...
- 3063: Moore's "Roger and Me"
- ... thread is Moore's relentless stalking of Roger Smith from 1987 to 1989. Smith continually eludes him, never explaining his mistake. Meanwhile, in Flint, the poor are getting poorer and the rich keep getting richer. Crime rises and Flint, once home to America's largest corporation, becomes the worst town in the US. The now-unemployed factory workers that haven't moved, lost their mind, or committed suicide, try to survive ...
- 3064: Catch-22 Book Review
- ... Rome without a pass. Aarfy, sharing the room, had just raped and killed a girl. Her body was sprawled on the street before horrified onlookers. The police arrested Yossarian, ignoring the evidence of the atrocious crime that had been committed to get the errant enlistee back to is squadron. Yossarian ends up in a hospital bed, having been knifed by Natelys whore ( who keeps turning up like a bad penny ). The ...
- 3065: "Rage"
- ... a headache. To me that's what rage is, that sensation in your mind that let's you know that you are frustrated. Beginning my search I looked up the definition in the dictionary my computer. When I looked up the meaning of the word rage in the dictionary it was exactly what I thought it would be. The real definition is violent explosive anger. Also to be furious intensity, as ...
- 3066: Beloved
- ... past tragedies 18 years ago when she killed Beloved in order to keep her from bondage. Morrison portrays Denver as a guard watching over the yard; the duty Denver has assumed since her mother's crime years ago. By allowing the flashback and violent attack to occur the vicious cycle that each character is miserably engulfed by is broken, which allows a new beginning to the individuals lives. This scene contributes ...
- 3067: Macbeth: The Use of the Classical Tragic Mold in Character Development
- ... subject, Duncan is a good king, they are blood-related, and Macbeth is his host. These reasons dissuade Macbeth at first, but later Lady Macbeth convinces him, by questioning his manhood, to commit the dastardly crime. When he finally murders Duncan, the problem comes to closure. But, even long before then, the next step in the mold had begun: the descent into the abyss. The "decent into the abyss" is the ...
- 3068: To Kill A Mocking Bird
- ... purpose is to show us how life isnt always fair. I strongly agree with her on that for several reasons. For example, look at what happened to Tom Robinson. He was accused of a crime he didnt commit and then he was killed because someone was lonely. She got him in trouble, which drove him to his death. In this example, life is definitely not fair because he never ...
- 3069: Television And Its Affect On Our Lives
- ... produced being used. The funny thing about technology is that we use it everyday without realizing or thinking that it is technology. We take it for granted. Thirty years ago the idea of a portable computer that could be carried around by anyone was unthinkable. In fact the technology we have now is being outdated at this very second by new technology in the world. The technological advance that has most ...
- 3070: Brave New World
- ... the wonderful world of which he had been told by his mother, and he is interested in Lenina. Bernard faces disgrace, back in London, for the director publicly accused him of unorthodox behaviour, a great crime. Bernard introduces Linda and John as a counteract, and a happy family reunion it is... not! The director has to resign and disappear, this was an embarrassement too great. John has become an attraction, with ...
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