based around a series of ritualistic events that occur along the way during Dora’s travels‚ along with obstacles that she and Boots are forced to overcome or puzzles that they have to solve (with "assistance" from the viewing audience) relating to riddles‚ the Spanish language‚ or counting. Common rituals may involve Dora’s encounters with Swiper‚ a bipedal‚ anthropomorphic masked thieving fox whose attempts at stealing the possessions of others must be prevented through fourth wall-breaking interaction
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who causes his own downfall due to a flaw in his character. Oedipus is a man of noble blood; his parents‚ who raised him as a child‚ were King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. Oedipus also becomes a king himself when he solves the Sphinx ’s riddle‚ thus saving Thebes and taking over the throne of the late King Laius. Oedipus then marries Jocasta‚ Laius ’s widow‚ and they have children together. Though he is a very fair and understanding husband‚ Oedipus ’s main concern is always the city
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HARDY We stood by a pond that winter day‚ And the sun was white‚ as though chidden of God‚ And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an ash‚ and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played between us to and fro On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of bitterness swept thereby Like
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How Fate and Oedipus’s own essential nature combine to make him a tragic hero? “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles is a very good play which talks about a guy who was fated to kill his father and married his mother. Aristotle defines “tragic hero as a person of great stature and virtue who becomes aware of a mortal defect within himself.” This defect leads to great tragedy. Oedipus’s own essential nature makes him a tragic hero because his ignorance (lack of knowledge) led him to his own destruction
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as well as in the rest of Doyle’s stories is a legendary detective known as Sherlock Holmes‚ who always shows a positive energy into solving criminal mysteries. In “A Scandal in Bohemia”‚ Holmes along with his trustful friend‚ tries to unravel the riddle regarding the hidden letters of the King of Bohemia. Sherlock Holmes’s unusual personality makes him an excellent observing person. Also‚ his insensitivity towards women changes after he meets an outstanding challenger‚ Irene Adler. Even though Holmes’s
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin in his essay‚ “Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel” states “A literary work’s artistic unity in relationship to an actual reality is defined by its Chronotope” In a chronotope‚ Bakhtin claims‚ “spatial and temporal marks are fused into a meaningful and concrete whole. Time here thickens‚ grows denser‚ becomes artistically visible; likewise‚ space becomes more intense and drawn into the movement of time‚ plot‚ history" A chronotope is therefore‚ a method of "artistically
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Oedipus’s first characteristic of being a tragic hero is being talented and of noble birth. Oedipus is talented because during his journey to run away from his curse‚ the oracle foresaw for him‚ he stumbles upon the Riddle of the Sphinx in Thebes; Oedipus solved the riddle and is rewarded to be king and is given the old kings wife. “You freed us from the Sphinx; you came to Thebes and cut us loose from the bloody tribute we had that harsh brutal singer” (Line 44). As Oedipus is being rewarded
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The protagonist of Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus becomes king of Thebes before the action of Oedipus the King begins. He is renowned for his intelligence and his ability to solve riddles—he saved the city of Thebes and was made its king by solving the riddle of the Sphinx‚ the supernatural being that had held the city captive. Yet Oedipus is stubbornly blind to the truth about himself. His name’s literal meaning (“swollen foot”) is the clue to his identity—he was taken from the
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Oedipus then solves the riddle of the Sphinx‚ Oedipus is enabled to marry the queen‚ again‚ not knowing it is his mother. In this event‚ Oedipus used his own free will to solve the riddle which allowed the freeing of the citizen of Thebes.” When the prophecy was placed upon him he told his wife Jocasta‚ and she told him to not worry because her older husband
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