Joe "King" Oliver

In Shakespeare 's play, “King Lear”, the female characters are potent and dominant figures just as their male counterparts, and sometimes even greater. The story begins in Britain where King Lear is deciding to give up his power and divide the kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. He is going to give the largest piece of his kingdom to the child who proclaims to love him the most. Goneril and Regan, insincere and corrupt, lie to their father with excessive and sappy…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby locations play an extremely large role in the telling of the story. They can indicate a character’s economic standing or make a poignant statement about the society of the 1920s. The three main locations in The Great Gatsby are the Valley of Ashes, the Eggs, and Manhattan. Each location sheds light into the various lifestyles of those that live there and how Fitzgerald perceives their actions and behaviors. Fitzgerald uses the Valley of Ashes to show…

term refers to the ignorance of one’s actions as applied to Aristotle’s Poetics. Ho’s close examination includes line-by-line correlation to the original Greek text. Although this essay does not provide a direct correlation to the play, Oedipus the King, the information discussed provides a valid reference to the meaning behind the term, hamartia. This paper is a useful secondary source to expand on one of Aristotle’s key elements pertaining to the definition of a tragic hero, hamartia. This…

In his article, “Why We Crave Horror Movies” King explains how this fears could have a negative effect on people that don’t let this feelings go, he mentions how people expect to always have positive emotions from those who have a fear and are scare to share it with society, in his article Stephen…

This paper is based on the book Sophocles, the Three Theban plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fagles. It will principally focus on the first two plays where two main characters Oedipus and Antigone are put forward. Fate, a very present factor in these plays, has impacted the life of both characters. This analysis will consist in identifying first how fate shapes Oedipus and Antigone’s lives. Also, it will respond to the question on whether fate remove…

SCA Response Paper Hank Ahrenholz A Sand County Almanac is a book written by Aldo Leopold in 1949. In this book he writes about what he sees in different months of the year in Wisconsin. The book is split up into 2 different sections and in the first part he talks about what he sees in nature throughout the year. He writes about things like birds building nests, geese migrating, and how man can enjoy the nature. In my words I think the main idea would be preserving nature. He brings up many…

(Line 89). This statement is about how covering her sibling, would satisfy him and the divine beings. She covered her sibling Polyneices, disregarding the way that she realized that in doing as such, she would confront her have certain going since King Creon disallow it. As per the Divine law, the dead require to have a legitimate internment to make to the black…

Other than hybridity, memory, and domesticity in the novel by Hanif Kureishi titled The Buddha of Suburbia I also see there is narcissism in the way Karim narrates the story. It is presented that Karim is not only the narcissistic character, but there are also in Charlie, Pyke, and Eleanor. According to etymonline.com narcissism —or sometimes mistakenly said as narcism— is derived from Greek Narkissos, a handsome young man in the mythology (from Ovid, "Metamorphoses," iii.370) who fell in love…

In Chaucer’s satirical comedy The Canterbury Tales, and Shakespeare’s play King Lear, women are portrayed in a negative light. In both time periods, female characters are supposed to be submissive and obedient to their husbands; furthermore, as seen in the text, women are frowned upon for being knowledgeable and independent. Each author uses his work to promote their opinion on gender roles in society. In the fourteenth century, society was based on hierarchal status and women were at the…

The word tragedy is defined as an event causing great destruction or distress. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare emphasizes this idea of tragedy. The story is revolved around this family feud which led many of these tragedies. A lot of character’s are impacted off this concept of two families having complete hatred for one another. In William Shakespeare's story Romeo and Juliet, the characters of Tybalt, Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence contribute to the tragedy of the play because of…