… of Athens), is thought by many modern scholars to be the greatest of the Greek tragedians. Around 430 BC, Sophocles wrote Oedipus Tyrannus, also known as Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex set the standard for Greek tragedy, and is regarded today as a work…

… Beowulf, it is clear that the two authors, St. Augustine and the poet respectively, differ on their views of death, which helps to paint a better picture of the world that each writer lived in. In Augustine’s writings, death plays a major role in life;…

… words “Dr. Livingstone I presume?” when in 1871 he finally found Dr. David Livingstone in western Tanzania. Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1840 in Wales. His childhood was poor and deprived with both parents deserting him and leaving him to grow…

… boy through his school years. As a result of his weight problem, he was often ridiculed and was emotionally distraught until he began to shed some of his extra pounds and make new friends. Sarah Byrnes was burned by her angry father when she…

… the nature of evil. The story follows the lives of two black female friends, presents differing views on evil. On one hand, we have society's conventional view of evil represented by the character of Nel and also seen in the Bottom's disapproval of…

… the reader of the persecutions of religious beliefs, a gossiping dwarf, and the people of Burgdorf, a small German town in the time of the Nazi Holocaust. The novel is set in World War I and continues through World War II. The Second World War is…

… future is as impossible as finding a needle in Texas. Huxley’s predictions of the future has proven to be eerily accurate in several areas; his predictions with regards to sex, our obsession with youth and beauty closely resemble societies' views…

… on March 26, 1911. In 1947 Williams composed the New York Drama Critics Award, and Pulitzer Prize winning A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' family life was full of tension and despair. His parents often engaged in violent arguments. His fathe…

… Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois’s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister’s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and…

… by water except on the west and has a mildly temperate climate (Kostof, 265). No sources indicate that Anthemius and Isidore considered the climate or land conditions as considerations in design, but Hagia Sophia’s base is longer on the north and south…