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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de la Fontaine. This quote highlights how Oedipus, Jocasta, and Laius in Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King resisted a predetermined path outlined by the gods and oracles. Regrettably, their rebellion against fate resulted in tragic outcomes. Despite knowing that…

Othello was written by Shakespeare in the year 1603. It was first performed in court, but not published until 1622. William Shakespeare took ideas from Giraldi Cinthio’s Hecca Tommithi – an Italian collection of 100 stories which were popular at the time, and studied by many playwrights and scholars.The play is about love, jealousy, deceit,…

Poe, the renowned horror writer of the 1800s, holds the title of being the first in the United States to delve into both horror and detective writing. With his influential work, he paved the way for subsequent American horror writers, including Stephen King. Despite their shared genre, there exist both similarities and differences in the…

The Walt Disney Studios Company began in 1923 in Los Angles. Around 1 937, Disney became famous for their creating the first full-length animated feature (Walt Disney Studios). The first full-length animated feature was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ill. I chose to do this topic because I write a paper in my Sociology…

Although the importance of family is an obvious theme, Handlebars intensifies the fact that those who are in severe poverty have to make hard decisions in order to survive. Rut’s decision to abort her pregnancy due to the fact that there is not adequate space or financial means for the new baby is the greatest…

In The Tempest, Prospero, the real Duke of Milan, was overthrown through a political coup from his kingdom by his younger brother Antonio. Prospero devoted to his magic, has mastered his skills in the stranded island he has been in for twelve years. Along with him is his teenage daughter Miranda, who was three years…

“But think a big part of the reason I didn’t care about Corpora’s past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret. ” Come. There is a way to be good again” This quote is significant because it indicates that Ihram Khan has known Emir’s secret all these years, the…

The theme in William Blake’s “A Poison Tree” is exceedingly interesting. From the very beginning the voice of the poem is under question. Whether it is from the Masculine or feminine point of view, even though he uses “he”, it could still be interpreted either way. Since Blake did use “he” it should be taken…

Henrik Ibsen portrays a microcosm of 19th-century Norse society in his drama “Hedda Gabler.” Hedda, the protagonist, exhibits a mixture of masculine and feminine traits due to her upbringing under General Gabler and the societal mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military position, his daughter Hedda is…

            Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a death foretold is a unique novel. Its uniqueness is its narrative and in the way it successfully unites all the elements of storytelling in a powerful inextricable web to recount how justice is rightly dispensed, in a story where the murder of the protagonist is known beforehand by…