Essays Tagged: "murderer"

Oedipus Rex. About the detective process used by Oedipus

ings the news from Delphi, Oedipus has the people listen with him. Here, Creon reveals that Liaus's murderer dwells in the city of Thebes. The plague, sent by the gods, will not subside until the kill ... this, Oedipus declares himself the city's savior and Liaus's avenger. He vows not to rest until the murderer is driven from the city. Oedipus follows many steps to discover who the killer is.First, Oe ...

(3 pages) 152 0 2.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Oedipus Rex

ends for the prophet Teiresias, who after much arguing, finally reveals that Oedipus himself is the murderer. Slowly but surely the history of Oedipus' situation begins to unravel, and it is discovere ...

(3 pages) 94 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Individualism and Belonnging to the Family in Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb

st, goes back and forth between his family and individualism. When his wife left him after a crazed murderer killed their son, Macon was isolated in his own house with his daily routine. Physical cont ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Othello

logically through the play Othello's character changes from a flawless military leader, to become a murderer. Also as the play progresses, the other characters in the play change their opinions of Oth ...

(4 pages) 167 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Oedipus

his plight to avenge the death of his predecessor, King Laios. Inhis determined search to find the murderer, he establishes a proclamation which woulddemand the banishment and even the death of the m ... banishment and even the death of the murderer. In his ironic action, the readerdiscovers that this murderer that Oedipus is so determined to discover is none other thanOedipus himself. In adhesion to ...

(4 pages) 73 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Tragedy in Hamlet

cause his father died by murder, and because Hamley becomes mad as he learns that his uncle was the murderer. The audience fears him because he transforms a points into a monster, crazed and impassion ...

(2 pages) 72 0 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The Death Penalty

is imposed to spare future victims of murder by carrying out the threat of execution upon convicted murderers. The death penalty punishes them not for what they may or may not do in the future but wha ... or what they may or may not do in the future but what they have already done. It's unclear that the murderer has the same right to live as their victim. ' Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banish ...

(2 pages) 257 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Hamlet. This paper deals with Hamlet and the revenge vs suicide problem

bly difficult for him to get a hold of himself and revenge the killing of his father by killing his murderer - even though it is expected of him to demand an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.In ... er, who poured poison into his ear while he was sleeping peacefully in his garden. Subsequently his murderer succeeded in taking over his victim's throne by marrying the sexy queen dowager. Thus, ther ...

(2 pages) 234 1 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Who is Macbeth?

reat. Conversely, several factors transform this one great man into a great tyrant and a malevolent murderer. Macbeth grows great throughout the play yet in reality becomes less and less as a man. Mac ... ' prophecies concerning him have been fulfilled and chance has diverted the attention from the true murderer. Macbeth has been thus far fortunate and has gone from Thane to king overnight. This raises ...

(10 pages) 70 2 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Geronimo: A biography about the apache warrior.

amous Apache of all. To the pioneers and settlers of Arizona and New Mexico, he was a bloody-handed murderer and this image endured until the second half of this century.To the Apaches, Geronimo embod ...

(3 pages) 127 1 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles , what led to his downfall?

n doing so, he will be forced to learnof his unimagined shame.Bearing his burden to the end, Laius' murderer will eventually see the truth.Oedipus delivers a proclamation to pursue the truth. Tiresias ... u yourself have made. You arethe differ of this land." He tells of the plague not leaving until the murderer is found.Tiresias, being a great prophet, knows all but will not tell: "I will speak no fur ...

(3 pages) 152 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

"Shoot the teacher" by David Belbin. Includes personal comment

itted the killings. Simon is themain suspect, however he's found innocent. Instead the findthat the murderer is Adam's only friend Naomi, who was thestepdaughter of the first victim.Adam is in the beg ... e verb shrug. At least once everyother page. The plot is well written so that you can't tellwho the murderer is until the very last page, or at least thelast chapter.I usually don't like this kind of ...

(2 pages) 34 1 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Punishment of the King/Oedipus Rex

illers: he wished to put an end to a deadly plague, and that plague would only be stopped when said murderer is killed, or driven from the land (pp 4-5). Thusly, when it is revealed that Oedipus himse ... p when walking through the city streets? How could his subjects respect and revere a king who was a murderer and commiter of incest? Oedipus is thusly stripped of his pride, the driving force behind h ...

(5 pages) 151 0 3.9 Sep/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

The Fall From Power In Hamlet and Oedipus

r in plot because they both are about the kings of their perspective cities being murdered, and the murderer subsequently is crowned king and marries the queen. They are also based on an incestuous re ... e very angry and upset by his comment. After provoking Tiresias further, he told him that he is the murderer. Oedipus became enraged and mocked his blindness as well as calling him other unpleasant na ...

(4 pages) 140 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders In the Rue Morgue"

the localGazette, two recent murders with questionable motives and circumstances, thesearch for the murderer has proved futile. Poe's stage is now set. The murders,of Madame and Mademoiselle L'Espanay ...

(4 pages) 112 0 4.0 Nov/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

A Murder's Journey Through works of Dostoyevsky and Poe

Some people believe that most murderers have a mental illness which causes them to commit their crime. This belief is strongly di ... Heart", "The Black Cat",and "The Cask of Amontillado" are very similar in this contradiction. Each murderer takes a specific journey that has been illustrated in each case. The psychological make-up ... takes a specific journey that has been illustrated in each case. The psychological make-up of each murderer shows that he is a normal person up to the point at which something compels him to commit t ...

(7 pages) 64 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

MacBeth's decent into hell. Speaks of Shakespeare's "MacBeeth"

LadyMacbeth. The play watches Macbeth as he decents into hell it also shows the conscious mind ofa murderer and how murder affects peoples minds.At the beginning of the play Macbeth is a well respect ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.7 Nov/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Lawyers, laws and how to become a lawyer.

passed down to generations by mouth. If someone murdered another person, it weakened the group. The murderer would either be killed, kicked out of the group, or have to take care of the family of the ...

(7 pages) 193 0 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Jack The Ripper-From Hell

Jack the Ripper was a multiple murderer in Whitechapel, London, England in the year of 1888. From August 31 to November 9, Jack the ... 1888. There was very little left of Mary to examine. She was found nude in her home on her bed. The murderer spent more than an hour mutilating the corpse after slitting her throat. There was so much ...

(4 pages) 57 0 4.7 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

Death penalty

ase in crime andviolence in our society due not only to gang and drug activities, but alsopsychotic murderers, our criminal justice system must decide whether or notdeath as a form of criminal punishm ... and adeterrence factor of criminal activity.Although it may seem to many people expensive to keep a murderer inprison for life, the fact is it is now actually more costly to execute the inmate. Atone ...

(4 pages) 173 0 3.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights