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…is the king of Thebes, and nobility was a necessity to awake compassion and terror in tragedies. He lives an irreparable disgrace and is really doomed to a terrible fate: to kill his father and marry his mother. He's destroyed in pursuing his ideal: to find…

…William Hung Political Science 1 March 5, 2001 The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism In the work of The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, he illustrated that any government must be accepted in order to avert the anarchy and terror…

…The twentieth century is the decade of experimentation and wild discoveries. It is the decade when Al Capone terrorizes humanity, when the Ku Klux Klan parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. The era when the automobile stars in the runway, when Babe Ruth…

…for democracy. During Hitler's rise to power he organized meetings, and terrorized political foes with his personal bodyguard force, the Strumabteilung, also known as the SA or Storm troopers. In November 1923, a time of economic chaos, he lead an uprising, also…

…: "They all carried emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing---these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity! , they had tangible weight." (Hansen, 434-435) He then goes on for another half of a page…

…this despairing moment as a time to finally set herself free, and let the feeling of power run wild all over her body. “She said it over and over under her breath: ‘free, free, free!’ The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed went from her eyes…

…." Caithness is speaking about them moving towards the castle and purging Macbeth with drops of their terror. In response, Lenox says, "Or so much as it needs to dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds. Make we our march towards Birnam." I this metaphor…

…terrorized by a terrible monster, the Sphinx. The Sphinx wanders the streets surrounding the city, asking travelers an unanswered riddle. Oedipus encounters the Sphinx, and answers its riddle, causing the Sphinx to kill herself in disbelief. The citizens…

…for being mean to her, Stanley explodes in terror. Then Stanley retreats to the bathroom to put on his silk pajamas. When he comes out of the bathroom, Blanche is threatened by his words and she smashes a bottle on the table to use the sharp edge to fend…

…Warren was a young girl evidently stricken with terror and inner conflict. Initially in this play, her character is perceived as a quiet and shy person. She was one who would never speak of her opinions. Proctor finds her where she was not supposed…