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- 3611: The Concept Of Justice In The
- ... A prime example of when justice was served in a harsh manner was when Odysseus stabbed Polyhemus in the eye, blinding him forever for holding him captive. Thus the punishment did not always match the crime, and justice was done arbitrarily.
- 3612: Tragic Hero Characterization I
- ... his own son Haimon, Creon refuses to submit to god's law due to his hubris. God's law declares that all men deserve a proper burial and Creon passes a law stating it a crime to bury Antigone's brother, Polyneices, because he considers him a traitor. Creon's opposing character, Antigone, exhibits the same hubris. On the opposing side of the argument, Antigone feels that her brother deserves a ...
- 3613: To His Coy Mistress
- ... in fact, what makes this poem so interesting. The speaker begins the poem by explaining to his mistress that if they had the time and place to discuss there feelings, then it would be no crime to complain and the modesty and reluctance among them would also be ok. However because the situation does not permit them to have such a discussion, he attempts to explain how he feels, in a ...
- 3614: Things Fall Apart Things Fall
- ... had committed inadvertently? But although he thought for a long time he found no answer. He was merely led into greater complexities. He remembered his wife's twin children, whom he had thrown away. What crime had they committed? (TFA 125) . This passage seems to indicate that there is a representative attitude of doubt within Umuofia. Customs such as throwing away twins and human sacrifice were troubling and no justification could ...
- 3615: Themes In Macbeth
- ... saying that his hands will wash easily and he will be cleared of the deed. So blood symbolizes the act of killing, since the blood is on Macbeth's hands, he is guilty of the crime. Later on however in the sleepwalking scene, Lady Macbeth says, "who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" (lines 42-43), and "Here's the smell of the ...
- 3616: The Problem Of Personal Identi
- ... operation, because Sam will be the only one who s conscious is present. Another way of looking at the whole situation in a different way is, if you think of the hard drive of a computer as the brain, and the monitor as the body. What happens if you take the hard drive from a Macintosh and attach it to the monitor of your IBM? You then have a completely different ...
- 3617: The Orestia
- ... abandonment of Orestes and the caustic environment of the house, is undoubtably a negative environment. Any of the aforementioned points, individually, could have driven the beleaguered Orestes to homicide; however, the justifiable nature of the crime would not have remained in tact. It is the combination of all the points listed that warranted acquittal. The circumstances that Orestes found himself under were indeed grave ones. Much to his chagrin, he found ...
- 3618: The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoe
- ... Slow Tomatoes is a detective novel written by K.C. Balzic an American mystery writer. Mario Balzic a proud from origin Italian police chief in Rocksburg, a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania will solve a crime, which is not even there at the beginning. But before that starts we meet Balzic in his attempt to work out union negotiations with the officials of the town. However Balzic is not really interests ...
- 3619: The Grapes Of Success
- ... within which the Joad family struggled to survive. They support and comment on the Joad narrative, and also give historical information. Very often Steinbeck uses artistic, deeply moving passages in these chapters: "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation," he writes of the California native practice of killing their hogs and destroying their crops because the migrants did not have enough money to buy them. "And the failure hangs ...
- 3620: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... phenomenon of induction : on every level of our being, from the muscular and sensational to the moral and the intellectual, every tendency begets its corresponding opposite. i.e. the unspeakable blackness of committing such a crime as the betrayal of his friend s trust was his very reason for doing so. By the time the public prosecutor joined the Parson s ever-widening circle of enemies (after he discovered that his ...
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