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    Hamlet explores themes that are universal and transcend time. The dichotomy of order and disorder that characterises the human condition and the struggle to make sense of the world are major themes in Hamlet. These timeless concerns that everyone can identify with‚ have given Hamlet textual integrity and an enduring power to sustain interest since the sixteenth century. Created in the Elizabethan period of the late sixteenth century‚ Hamlet depicts a country that is in political and social disorder

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    Deconstructing the Human Condition Frank had initially laid upon his human nature to retire from his criminal activities. Frank was well advanced in age‚ which restricted him from being swift in his activities. Hence‚ he slumped into his mortal nature and await his ultimate destiny‚ death. However‚ the arrival of the robot deconstructed his human nature. Initially‚ Frank thought that the Robot was a nuisance to his otherwise quiet life. Nonetheless‚ the Robot proved an instrumental part of Frank

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    The human condition follows the path of fate. Everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their life at that time‚ but will ultimately lead to their pre- determined fate. People inflict their own wounds during their life by the choices that they make. This applies in Romeo and Juliet and plays a major role in Romeo and Juliet’s lives. "A pair of star-crossed lovers" (I‚ i‚ 6) In the very opening of the play the chorus is singing about Romeo and Juliet‚ and predicts

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    portrayed well by Golding. His work also gives a new insight into human behavior and what evil we are capable of. The book is centered on human condition and contains various layers surrounding this theme. There are a considerable amount of allegories/symbols woven into the book. So what exactly is human conditioning and what does it have to do with Golding’s novel; Lord of the Flies? Human conditioning is the experience of being human in not only society‚ but also in personality

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    Unifying is the human condition. No matter any privileges one collects from birth‚ all people possess one humbling similarity: we must navigate the world around us. All are presented with choices in life‚ and most attempt to make the right choice‚ but a question remains. What is the right choice? The simple words “right” and “wrong” are completely subjective. Even widely held beliefs have naysayers‚ and public opinion is constantly changing. What is considered “right” now may be “wrong” in five

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    entirely dependent on one’s own beliefs. Since it is a mere idea that is not exactly obtainable with our human minds‚ there is no way to accurately prove that free will is either right or wrong. The human mind is not capable to fully grasp the idea of the limits of free will. Thus the idea of the limits of our free will is then established by one’s environment (Professor Lagerweij). For instance‚ Oedipus was limited in his free will by the oaths dictating his fate. Machiavelli‚ also‚ believed that the

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    rather than where they have come from. Also‚ they do act according to their intuitions despite of whatever the consequences may be. Goethe’s Faust is a considered a romantic hero based on a 16th-century German legend. The story of Faust on the human condition. He represents humanity in a way that he is driven for power and knowledge. He sacrificed his personal needs for the greater good. Faust is a complete persona of the human’s ability and motivation. In comparison to the Promethean personality‚

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    Calm down. You have to breathe‚ and calm down‚ Rex. Remember the rule of threes. Rex tries to think‚ tries to function as all the oxygen seems to flee the room. "U-um..uh..." The human can survive three days without water. Holiday voice prompts. Then three hours without shelter‚ and three minutes without air. Without air...he thinks the air in the room is dwindling. He isn’t sure if he can feel his toes. Rex. You can only survive

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    of him because of his wealthy father. Sophocles wrote 123 plays and won 24 dramatic awards. Only seven of his plays are entirely preserved. His seven plays are Ajax‚ Antigone‚ Electra‚ Trachiniae‚ Philoctetes‚ Oedipus at Colonus‚ and Oedipus Rex. His most famous play is Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex is about a man who is destined to marry his mother and kill his father‚ and his efforts to solve the problem only ever worsened it. He was the first to use painted backdrops in his plays. He also used many

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    In both "Othello" and "Oedipus Rex" to a great extent‚ the emotions provoked by familiar human experiences are acceptable to all people of all times. It is a fact that "Human nature remains the same (Kiernan Ryan 1989)." Both plays explore issues surrounding emotions like love‚ envy‚ jealousy and pride provoked by life experiences such as racism‚ fate‚ rifts between parent and child‚ a quest for position through deception or for justice or an intoxicating sense of being all powerful which transcend

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