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…, not by thy folly, but by mine own!” (Sophocles, 94) Finally, Beowulf and Creon both suffer the wrath of fate. Throughout all Greek tragedies and myths, people and even Gods have attempted to evade their fate, but have never been able to do so. “Sad was his spirit…

…of 27%. Clearly, those who fit the allowed definition of Khmer suffered somewhat less than members of minorities or groups contaminated by “foreign influence”, who bore the wrath of the regime that committed one of the century's worst crimes against humanity.…

…by”. The reader is foretold of the wrath about to unfold. Eurymachus tries to rally his friends to fight against Odysseus. The reader is told that Eurymachus drew out his broad sword of fine bronze as he spoke. As Eurymachus rushed towards Odysseus, the reader…

…, in revenge for Agamemnon, kills his mother Clytaemestra. Yet the darkness that is expected from such a murder, a matricide, is negated by one of the main reasons that Orestes commits the murder: his fear of the wrath of Apollo, who has ordered him to commit…

…the wrath of Achilles. At the sight of him the Trojans broke rank and scattered, dividing into two bodies. The Trojans ran because they knew how much of a great warrior he was and didn’t even be around him because they were too afraid. Achilles drove one part…

…released no seed, for bright-crowned Demeter kept it buried…” (Hymn to Demeter 309-310) The hymn thus emphasizes the creative potential of female wrath. In ancient Greek society, girls were separated from there mothers for extended periods of time after…

…on a mission, earning the wrath of his men. Doc Daneeka, the squadron's doctor, is a hypochondriac who belittles everyone else's illnesses rather than treating them, and bemoans his own troubles. Chief White Halfoat brags about his displacement by ìAmericansî…

…the wrath of war find themselves unable to return to civilian life. It’s very ironic if you analyze war closely, how so many people give up their own lives and freedom to preserve the freedoms of their fellow countrymen…

…with Othello and her sharing of honeymoon quarters with this "Barbary horse" at the unsavory sounding Sagittary Inn is bound to evoke her father's wrath. Indeed, when we first hear Desdemona speak her "divided duty" defense (I, iii., ll.178-188), she appears to have…

…attempt at suicide, he realizes that he has wronged Edgar and condemns his blindness of Edmund's plan: "O dear son Edgar, the food of thy abused father’s wrath; might I but live to see thee in my touch, I’d say I had eyes again!” (IV.i.24-27) This parallels…