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Townspeople’s Impressions of the Angel in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
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A 3 page paper which examines how the angel is compared by the townsfolk to a circus animal, a carnival acrobat, and a sideshow freak (a woman who had been changed into a spider), the significance of these three incidents to the story, and how they help readers to make sense of the old man with enormous wings and the residents’ response to his presence in their community. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGmanwings.rtf

Tradition vs. Change in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”
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A 4 page paper which examines how the conflict between tradition and change affected Okonkwo and the members of his Igbo society in the classic 1959 novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TGtfatc.rtf

Traditional Family Life in “The Importance of Being Earnest”
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A 5 page paper which examines if there are any elements in Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” which offer subversive thoughts concerning traditional family life. Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is also discussed. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
Filename: RAearn.rtf

Tragedies: Oedipus The King and Death Of A Salesman
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The newspapers are forever mentioning the word, 'tragedy'. It usually means that there has been a death or deaths associated with a catastrophic event. Surprisingly, this is in keeping with the use of tragedy as described by Aristotle: that it should evoke the emotions of pity and fear in the presence of an action of a certain magnitude. This 5 page paper explores the element of tragedy in Sophocles' play, Oedipus Rex and Arthur Miller's play, Death Of A Salesman. No additional sources are listed.
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Tragedy & Tragic Heroes In Macbeth, Death Of A Salesman, & More
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A 6 page paper defining classic Aristotelian form of tragedy and how it is expressed in Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Metamorphosis, and The Stranger. 2 source bib
Filename: Traghero.doc

Tragedy and Illusion in "Death of a Salesman" and "View from the Bridge"
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A six page paper comparing these two plays by Arthur Miller. The paper concludes that in both plays, the hero is standing in the midst of a tidal wave of reality against which he cannot possibly win, and yet he refuses to back down because that would mean ceasing to believe in the illusion that sustains him. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBmillr.wps

Tragedy and the Tragic Hero
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A five page work comparing Sophocles' Oedipus, Homer's Odysseus, and Shakespeare's Macbeth as tragic heroes, and the works in which they serve as protagonist ("Oedipus Rex," the "Odyssey," and "Macbeth") as tragedies. The paper concludes that Odysseus is not a tragic hero at all, because his problems do not arise from a doomed conflict between external forces and his own tragic flaw; while that is, indeed, the case with both Oedipus and Macbeth. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: KBtragic.wps

TRAGEDY AS PORTRAYED IN THE PLAYS: OEDIPUS REX AND DEATH OF A SALESMAN
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This 3 page paper examines the writings of Miller and Aristotle as concerns tragic plays. Their concepts are exampled in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus Rex. Quotes cited from texts. Bibliographpy lists 4 sources.
Filename: MBoedwilly.rtf

Tragedy of Characters: Joyce Carol Oates
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A 7 page paper which discusses the tragedy found in the main characters of some of Joyce Carol Oates' short stories. The stories discussed are "The Passion of Rydcie Mather," "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?," and "The Crying Baby." Bibliography lists 6 additional sources.
Filename: RAoatesshrt.wps

Tragedy of Dido
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A 3 page essay that examines Book Four of Virgil's epic poem of Rome's founding, the Aeneid, which relates the tragic love of Dido for the epic's hero Aeneas. This section of the poem pictures the course of Dido's love in five stages, which range from her realization that she loves Aeneas to her suicide, as his ships sail away. Throughout this narrative, Virgil pictures love as the equivalent to disease, an external force that subverts attention from what it truly important in life, that is, one's responsibilities. The implication in the poem is that Aeneas, being male, is better able to keep a proper focus than is the hapless, lovelorn Dido. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdido2.rtf