The theme of predestination in "Oedipus Rex" is crucial to where and what happens in Oedipus" life. ... In the last pages of the book, the only way Owen was able to save the Vietnamese children, as prophesized in his dream, was by catching a grenade and getting their attention with his unreal voice... In the opening of "Oedipus Rex," as king of his land, Oedipus accepts the challenge of saving the people of his country from a plague. ... Sophocles does a good job of creating irony that produces humor in the midst of tragedy. ... These examples of irony and others are found throughout this...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

William went to London to work as a clerk, and Paul also got a job as clerk with Mr. ... Paul goes through a series of very realistic romances over the course of the book. ... The Oedipus complex is seen through out the book, Sons and Lovers. ... If one has read the book, one may have noticed that Paul has a difficult time with relationships, that because subconsciously he is too wrapped up in his own mother. ... The Oedipus complex runs rampant in this book, read a few chapters closely and one will see. ...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Why the Bride is so submissive and quaint and why the painter is so obsessed with his job of painting. ... In the beginning of the story the narrator compares the chateau to the dark castles in Ann Radcliff's stories which had a gothic setting. ... " (292) The book describes the painter, an eccentric obsessed with his art of painting and worships it more than anything even more than his beloved wife. ... Regarding these explanations it can also create an innate "Oedipus complex" in Poe himself later strengthened by the evidences in his writing as his portrayal of other wom...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Allport believed that "the experience of unique, normal human adults should be at the center of the study of personality" (author + year of "my book" p378) and defined personality as "the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought" (Allport cited in bk (author&yr&page no)) Considered one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th Century Sigmund Freud offered a fresh and challenging perspective on the development of human psychological understandings of personality development which then formed th...

• Word Count: 2732
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate