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having a picnic, then, all of a sudden a big white horse comes up to you, but, then you notice the big horn coming out of its head and you know it is a Unicorn. Many people believe in suck a thing as a Unicorn, in my report I am going to tell you…

to be the faultless model of a tragedy. The reason Aristotle considered Oedipus the King to be matchless was due to the fact that it flawlessly adhered to his stringent criteria of an effective tragedy. In Aristotle's The Poetics he describes how…

Argue for or against this proposition using examples from the text; please limit evidence to two or three episodes only. The word powerful can be looked at in several ways; it can be regarded as strength, knowledge, control, and beauty. All these…

his heroic stature after having been stripped of his royal title as King of Thebes. This is a play about the fallibility of humans, and the existing possibility of redemption. Oedipus becomes a noble and dignified hero in his death, after being…

and the 13th Warrior, both are very good stories, one legibly and the other visually (unless you go to the roots of the 13th Warrior and read Eaters of the Dead). Although it is pretty obvious to anyone who has read Beowulf that the…

of Romeo and Juliet. Phoebus had a chariot of fire, which Phaeton, his son, borrowed one day to speed toward the heavens. But Phaeton drove carelessly and lost control of the horses. As a result, the chariot flew too near the earth, and several…

of how our destiny is set when we are born. It was prophesied when Oedipus was born that he was destined to one-day kill his father, marry his mother and have children, and then she would die at his hand. Grief stricken, Oedipus left his hometown to…

pantheon and the ultimate ruler of heaven and Earth and of all gods and humankind. The youngest son of the Titan Cronus, Zeus escaped the fate of his siblings. Cronus had swallowed them in fear that one would grow up to depose him, but Zeus was hidden…

is not often a image that comes to mind right away, unless you are asking the right person. Most will tell you of its colonial origins, or the booming slave trade, or the dawn of the industrial revolution. Not many will mention figures such as Nellie…

Please comment so that i know how i can improve my writing. Thank you for taking the time to read this. :) Oedipus' Diary That "shameless and brainless, sightless and senseless sot!" To think that he was a wise prophet? He has nothing but " fraudulent…