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    King of Scotland. He acknowledges these challenges with immoral actions‚ as advised by his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. Through his responses‚ Macbeth’s character flaws are revealed‚ such as his deteriorating moral judgment‚ corrupted sanity and his most fatal flaw of all‚ ambition. Macbeth’s mental health and moral judgment attribute to his character flaws‚ promoting the concept that human nature consists of both positive and negative aspects. Macbeth’s moral standards deteriorate throughout Macbeth‚ as ambition

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    Fate's Flaws In Hamlet

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    conveys these two main factors fate and flaw to demonstrate the depiction of Hamlet’s demise. A flaw is an imperfection‚ or defect in someone’s behaviour. Fate is the development of events outside a person’s control‚ regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Hamlet’s flaws is caused by his melancholy of being sad‚ depressive‚ and overly-introspective which contribute to his downfall. For example Hamlet demonstrated one of his flaws when a ghost visited him in the castle

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    Pentium Micro Flaw

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    Jamai Wilson The Pentium microprocessor flaw was discovered in June‚ 1994. The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU for what was once possibly the widest-selling personal computer. Unlike previous CPUs that Intel put on the market‚ the 486DX and Pentium chips included a floating-point unit (FPU)‚ which is also known as a math coprocessor. Previous Intel CPUs performed arithmetic using integers; programs that used floating-point numbers (non-integers like 2.5 or 3.14) needed to tell the chip how

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    Flaws of human society Lord of the flies is a novel written by William Golding‚ which was later published in 1954. The novel the novel is about a group of boys that are stranded on a deserted island that for a society‚ with a very weak foundation‚ which later falls apart. By this Golding is trying to show the bigger picture of the society during his time and the war that is going on in the real world. Similarly in the poem The Second Coming the picture of chaos and anarchy is clearly painted by

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    I think that Antigone is not a tragic hero‚ a tragic hero has one fatal flaw that leads to their downfall‚ Antigone had multiple downfalls that lead to her final demise. Most people think that she is a Tragic hero because of the flaw they see. The most commonly recognized flaw would be her loyalty to the gods‚ and going against creans decrees against proper burial rights for her brother Polynesus. . Antigone’s most recognizable flaw is that she disobeyed Creon’s decrees to not let Polynesus have

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    Garbo's Ethical Flaw

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    An Ethical Flaw Cullen Ali Carey HRM/THE ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCES Professor Kenneth L Judson May 11‚ 2009 An Ethical Flaw Employees of just about every business‚ in every business‚ will occasionally encounter team members who are taking part in unethical behaviors. Employees should understand that establishing the trust of the boss is essential as well. That responsibility includes living up to the agreement made of being at work on time‚ not stealing company property‚ and always presenting

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    Oedipus Rex Analisys

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    In "Oedipus Rex"‚ Sophocles portraits one of the most intriguing and fascinating traits of the human nature: the search for truth regarding who we are and the realization of the paths reserved by our future fate. The play starts with the presentation of the main character: Oedipus‚ the king of Thebes. Sophocles presents Oedipus to the reader as a majestic figure who addresses his attention to the people of Thebes from his palace. The city had been hit by a devastating plague due to Laïos (the

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    tragic hero

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    1. By the definition a modern tragic hero "must be good but flawed‚ must be artistocratic‚ must be believable‚ and must behave consistantly." (Literature and Ourselves‚ 524). With that being said‚ I think Troy could be seen as a modern tragic hero. I believe that deep down Troy is a good man‚ but he is flawed in many ways Rose explains this when she said‚ "sometimes when he touched he bruised. And sometimes when he took me in his arms he cut." (Literature and outselves‚ 195). This alone explains

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    Oedipus and Batman Great and tragic love is something that happens to everyone in their life time. In the two completely different stories of Oedipus and Batman they both have them same story line. Batman and Oedipus are two different types of heroes but the same when it comes to the archetype theme of tragic forbidden love. In this essay I will explain archetypes‚ themes‚ and what the themes of these stories are. Forbidden love happens in all great stories. Some of the greatest include Titanic

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    Oedipus: A Perfect Tragedy

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    universal plot of Oedipus the King resonates a perfect tragedy. Sophocles’ implementation of anagnorisis and peripeteia enhances the idea of irony in the play and introduces a major theme. Catastrophe adds the aspects of hamartia and hubris‚ along with the element of irony. The well-constructed plot arouses the emotions pity and fear‚ and achieves the tragic catharsis. Sophocles implements these three different aspects well in his plays‚ which supports the statement of Oedipus being a perfect tragedy

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