.... also explores the issue of kingship and loyalty, which was of great importance to James.The opening scenes of the play in Macbeth are important, as they have to capture the audience’s attention. Shakespeare achieves this by introducing them to the main characters of the play, the main aspects of the plot and also by including effective sound effects, which create a captivating atmosphere.The play opens with a meeting of three witches up on a heath with the emphasis of lightning, thunder and darkness. Shakespeare instantly creates a mood of terror and unearthly evil. The audience is immediately plunged into the midst of things and captures their attention .....

.... of years. However, some are remembered for tens, hundreds, and even thousands of years, because of their great intellectual achievement to feats of outstanding skill. Gilgamesh is not only a character of a story; he is actually a portrayal of people and how they act out of human nature. He, like many of us, does not want his existence to end when he leaves this world. He is not content with what he has, good looks, money, and power, and desires more in life. The is a story that we, as people, can relate to. There are similarities between Gilgamesh’s journey and our own journey through life. Some of the texts that will be compared with The , are th .....

.... story. This is what happens to one who falls in love with a wonderful, happily married woman. First, there are the moments of exquisite joy reveling in the sacred celebration of Love. All else seems unimportant and remote. Then, there are the brief moments of pain when you are set aside, understandable though it may be, for things important in her life. That leads to a rebirth of fantasizing that you perfected in your youth, where she is an innocent passive party to your feasts of imagination. Then, the final straw is when the fantasy becomes reality. And as your Love and her lover scale those endless heights, sadly, you, with tear-misted eyes are left .....

.... when she states “But if Creon and his people are the wrongdoers let their suffering be no worse than the injustice they are meting out to me.” (p196.984). Not unlike Oedipus once was, Creon was also a proud ruler. In a confrontation with Antigone he states, “When I am alive no woman shall rule.” (p181.579), which suggests that his pride is adamant and unforgiving, more so than Oedipus. Creon also exhibits stubbornness along with his pride, this is evident when he states “My enemy is still my enemy, even in death.” (p181.575). His pride becomes even stronger when others attempt to defy his will. His argument with .....

.... than illustrating the pursuit of truth to be virtuous, Sophocles presents the pursuit of knowledge as a forbidding journey with the power to destroy. Sophocles protects the righteous by redirecting the blame for Oedipus' misfortune onto fate. Oedipus is a righteous man. The only evidence questioning his righteousness was the act of (unknowingly) killing his biological father, Laius. However, during the period in which Oedipus the King was written, it was honorable to seek justice when one has been wronged. Oedipus was mistreated and therefore sought justice. Oedipus, when faced with an opportunity to seek the truth, pursued it with conviction. He s .....

.... thing to do. When I go to the store and they accidentally sell me something for cheaper than what's its supposed to be, I usually don't say anything. Even though I know its wrong, I still do it. Just because we know we can do something and escape it doesn't always mean it's the right thing to do. In society people cheat all the time, and sometimes they don't even know they are cheating. Taxes would be a great example of this philosophy because many people cheat on their taxes. They do it because they know that there are millions of people who do their taxes every year and it would be almost impossible for the government to find everyone who cheated .....

.... family. His father Nathaniel Goddard was also an author. Benchley was educated at Harvard University. Some of Benchley’s interests are Diving,tennis, wildlife, the theater, and films. In addition to all this Benchley has a love for the ocean. Benchley has been a novelist, a reporter, an editor, staff assistance to the president, and has worked in the White House doing other various things. There is a particular interesting moment in Benchley's life. When he was working in the White House, the president picked up some of his work to read it and said something along the lines of “Bull shit”. The president basically called it trash. The majority of .....

.... flame, but to represent the punishment something can inflict upon an object. It presents the image of the intense pain in which a burn can inflict, along with the extraordinary speed in which it happens. Fire causes a tremendous amount of destruction to virtually anything within seconds. It could also represent just a violent ending. Either way, it would be nice to have things over with fast, but the intense pain might not make it worth it. For the world to end in ice, seems to present the image of a slower, numbing effect. I feel he uses ice to represent a slow, almost unnoticeable change that eventually causes the destruction of mankind. Fire, .....