A Series of Unfortunate Events

hubris and poor kingship. Antigone earns the sympathy of the audience because of her accursed background. She was born of an “ill-fated mother who slept with her own son, my father! Such was my unhappy birth.” (Sophocles 56). Since this unfortunate series of events the line of Oedipus, Antigone’s father, has been cursed. Due to the curse, Oedipus gouged out his eyes and went…

and the event. Three years down the road, he asked those same students to write down their memories a second time. Astonishingly, over ninety percent of the reports differed from what the students had previously reported three years earlier. One student was shown her report that she had written the day after the event and she shuddered in disbelief as I had upon releasing that I had misremembered the name of my beloved childhood story book characters. After she read her reports on the event…

Synopsis In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, a young country girl by the name Tess Durbeyfield or “d’Urberville” goes through a series of very unfortunate events following the revelation that she is of ancient noble blood. As her father John is walking past an old man he is rough acquaintances with, but not close to whatsoever, the man informs him that he is actually of the ancient name d’Urberville, one of the most wealthy and influential families a few centuries prior. Sadly, John…

Many influences led me to being the person and student I am today. Different people and experiences have had an impact on me, including family, teachers, books, and my own feelings. Education is very important and I am thankful for the lessons I have been taught. Learning and knowledge are the foundations on which a great personality, and life, can be built. Both my father Mark and mother Maxine have college degrees. They understood the importance of education and were very favorable toward…

until Mark Antony accuses them of being traitors and turns the people against them. The group flees and rallies their armies to standoff against Antony while Octavius, Caesar’s son, arrives to support Antony in this struggle. Fighting ensues and a series of miscommunications leads to the honorable suicides of Cassius and Titinus. Brutus arrives to see his friend’s dead and knows his doom is imminent and decides to take his life as well. Octavius and Antony appear and mention Brutus to be the…

will mark the fortieth anniversary of Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (1976), the case that single-handedly altered the course of psychological practice in the United States. The Tarasoff case would come to document a series of unfortunate events that began with graduate student Prosenjit Poddar and fellow UCLA-Berkeley student, Tatiana Tarasoff. Tarasoff was the romantic interest of Poddar, a woman who became the object of an all-consuming infatuation. Upon rejecting…

Some may argue that all pieces of literature can be related to one of Thomas C. Foster’s chapters in his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, in which Foster analyzes varying ways of looking at and connecting literature pieces. The novel Things Fall Apart by the venerable and eminent Chinua Achebe is a good example to how a piece of literature can be related to Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor or HTRLLAP. Specifically, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart can be correlated…

allowed in nature. Besides Victor's blood family, even his best friend and true love came to a tragic end due to his flawed judgement. Henry Clerval acts as Victors doctor and friend and saves Victor's life more than once, but upon an unfortunate series of events suffers a brutal death by Victor’s monster. His love Elizabeth on the other hand is murdered in the same household as Victor on their honeymoon. He went to investigate a suspicious noise and in the same minute the monster breaks into…

Over the centuries, the city was abandoned and forgotten as the memory of Pompeii became nothing but a legend passed throughout generations by word of mouth. Despite the fact that the ancient objects from Pompeii were discovered sporadically, the city itself was not found until the 18th century. Ever since, excavations have gone deeper into the city’s mysterious secrets. Archaeological finds reveal how people lived during that time, as well as how they died during the…

A Series of Unfortunate Events – The Trial and Execution of Louis XVI Why was Louis XVI overthrown in August 1792? What were the issues which divided republicans over his fate? A series of unfortunate events led to the deposition and ultimate execution of Louis XVI in January 1793. Louis’ plight, from the flight to Varennes in June 1791 to the guillotine on 21 January 1793, was one of constant blunders and calamitous decisions. Along with this, Louis was unable to rely on his closest…