Oedipus "The Granddaddy of Fate" From the moment that I received this assignment, it has been referred to as a classic or otherwise something memorable, I could hardly wait to begin reading it. Now that I have satisfied my curiosity, I can honestly say that I enjoyed reading about Oedipus" inner struggle of facing and accepting his destiny. Sophocles seemed to be trying to teach a lesson of some sort but what the lesson was I am unsure. ... "Offspring of endless night thou hast no power over me or any man who sees the sun," Oedipus (line 864-865). ... When I look upon thee, my king, I...

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[ ] O god, a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer- married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. ... Highly injurious or destructive: deadly 2. archaic: wicked (Merriam-Webster 864). ... Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.(3.4.90-94) Hamlet later in this scene forbids his mother to return to her incestuous bed: But do not go to my uncle's bed: Assume a virtue;[ ] Refrain tonight, And that shall lend the ki...

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I think that the most obvious of those examples is when the man falls in a mountain's spring. ... London also mentions directly that man is only able to survive within certain narrow limits of temperature (864). ... Another theme that I have detected in both of the stories is survival. ... Now, I will talk about the contrasts that I have found between those two same stories. ... To finish, I would say that I definitively preferred London's naturalism to Dreiser's one. ...

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/I know I am pleasing those whom I must. " in reference to the gods (114-115). ... /I am different. ... For example, when trying to persuade Creon to change his mind Haimon uses the metaphor, "In the winter floods you can see/how the trees that give way save every stem,/and how those that strain are destroyed, uprooted "(864-866). ... /I was wrong, not you"" (1458-1464). ... She laments, "Unmourned, friendless, I am led away....

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Though, these two are both acts, in some shape or form, of taking another person's life from them, I believe that active euthanasia is moral. James Rachel says, "One reason why so many people think that there is an important moral difference between active and passive euthanasia is that they think killing someone is morally worse than letting someone die"" (864). ... Consequently, I do not fully agree with either Rachels' or Foot's full positions....

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