.... one day he would kill his father and marry his mother. He found a home in Corinth where grew up thinking the king and queen of Corinth were his parents. When he caught wind of the prophecy as young man he fled Corinth and wound up in Thebes where he would become king and marry the queen. He conquered the Sphinx and earned the respect of the citizens. He took a lot of pride in his ability to rule and be a great man. Oedipus did not know that the Oracle's prophecy and his pride would bring down from the ranks of greatness. He could not escape it; it was his fate. Taking a deeper look into Ar .....

.... people, they would never have the experience of diving into their own souls and finding what their own spiritual capabilities are. Thus, they would travel through life spiritually empty and have no substance in their life. Likewise, if a person goes through life having everything spoon-fed to them and never have to work for anything that is important to them, they will never truly experience satisfaction, an emotion of the soul. These situations can be played out today. Some people are exceptionally intelligent people and have the gift of regurgitating information which they are expecte .....

.... by "potters' hands" - the people and other influences around him. Pip's first profound initiation of fear, which dictates his thoughts and actions, stems from his first encounter with Magwitch. In reference to wanting a file and "wittles" (victuals), Magwitch says the following to Pip:"You bring them both to me, or I'll have your heart and liver out!" (Ch. 1, p. 3 7) The fear of authority and pain dominates Pip's thoughts and influences his actions. The influence is so profound that Pip, reacting out of fear, robs Mrs. Joe. In response to this, Pip feels guilty, which begets more fear, a .....

.... war, and of what it would be like to fight in those glorious battles. He didn^t want to stay on the farm with nothing to do, so he made his final decision to enlist. After enlisting he finds himself in a similar situation, with nothing to do. While there he becomes friends with two other soldiers, John Wilson, ^the loud soldier / ^the friend^ and Jim Conklin, ^the tall soldier^. Wilson was a loud spoken and obnoxious soldier who becomes one of Henry^s best friends. Jim was a tall soldier and was a childhood friend of Henry^s. He was always calm and matter-of-fa .....

.... woods and ran into Solomon. Solomon grabbed him, at first Adam was scared and tried to get away but Solomon convinced him that he was not going to harm him. Solomon told Adam that he would have to wait a while to be able to walk back to his house. So Solomon comforted him and made him feel better about his fathers death, he also fed him. Solomon learned that the British were here, because before Adam told him he didn't know until he saw them marching. He also learned a lot about Adam and about what happened during the battle that his father was killed. B) My favorite character in this b .....

.... des décisions importante soit entre la vie ou la mort. Ces décision portait toujours le risque de mauvaise répercussions. Ceci est appelé le conflit cornélien. Le conflit cornélien consistait dans le Cid consistait d'une décision entre l'amour et le devoir/l'honneur. Après la première mise-en scène du Cid, il y avait plusieurs critiques. L'une d'elle venait des Espagnols, ils accusaient Corneille du plagiat d'une pièce écrite par un écrivain espagnol célèbre. Corneille avoua qu'il avait raison, mais il affirma qu'il l'avait seulement fait parce qu'il car il avait une gra .....

.... from her normal life. The Puritans view this letter as a symbol of the devil. The letter also puts Hester through torture: "Of an impulse and passionate nature. She had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely wreaking itself in every variety of insult but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and herself the object" (54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child without the presence of a husband will always b .....

.... of Child-Murderess 1. Original myth: Corinthians kill children in retribution for death of Creon Crossing of Gender Boundaries 1. Medea as female 1. Incorporates forces of chaos 2. Represents the non-human and non-Greek 2. Medea as male 1. Successfully avenges slighted honor 2. Punishes breaker of oaths and so acts as agent of divine justice--classic patriarchal role 3. Contrast with Penelope's failure to protect household: why does Penelope fail in the masculine role and Medea succeed? 4. Gender = power (dominance vs. submission) Medea was a devotee of t .....

.... through symbols, which carry her readers through her poem. Besides the literal significance of —the "School," "Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring"—much is gathered to complete the poem’s central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of life’s cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one’s life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shaw as follows: "School, where children strove"(9) may represent childhood; "Fields of Gazing Grain"(11), maturity; .....

.... The dog was shoot by Carlson and Lennie was shoot by George. Both, Lennie and the dog were shoot in the back of the head "where the spine and the skull were joined."(page 105) Steinbeck and Carlson used the same word to describe the pain, which the victims would endure. The word was quiver. Both of the victims friends reacted the same, they both seemed mesmerized and bemused about what had happened. The dog’s M. Stern page 2 shooting set up a foreshadow for the killing of Lennie. When one reads the sh .....