choose three gods or goddesses in oedipus rex and explain their relivance to the story

The most
relevant god is Apollo, the god of prophecy.

What does Asagai expect from a woman in A Raisin in the Sun? What does George expect from a woman? Would either of them be satisfied with Beneatha?...

Joseph
Asagai is an African student who courtsand has a zealous conviction for improving his homeland
of Africa. Beneatha is attracted to Joseph's compassionate, sensitive personality and is
enthralled by his conviction for African heritage and culture. Joseph Asagai's views champion
Pan-Africanism, and he is a staunch activist for the indigenous inhabitants of Africa. Asagai's
wish is for Beneatha to accept his love, agree to marry him, and move to Africa, where they will
both strive to improve his homeland.

Asagai believes that Beneatha could use
her medical expertise to benefit indigenous Africans while he works to improve the political and
educational institutions in various regions of Africa. Essentially, Asagai expects Beneatha to
fully embrace her African heritage and...

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Radical Republicans' plan and Andrew Johnson's plan?

During the
Civil War, President Lincoln began formulating a plan to reunify the nation when the war came to
an end. He felt reunification should be a gentle and gradual process. He planned to pardon
Confederates who severed their Confederate ties and took an oath to uphold the US Constitution
and the Union. When 10% of the people who had voted in 1860 in each state had taken the oath,
and when their legislature had abolished slavery, then the state could be readmitted to the
Union.

This plan was countered in 1864 by Radical Republicans in Congress who
thought it too lenient. They proposed the Wade-Davis Bill which said that half the male voters
had to take the oath and repudiate having voluntarily been a Confederate, and the legislature
had to abolish slavery. Lincoln vetoed the bill, saying it was too harsh.

When Lincoln was killed on April 14, 1865 and Andrew Johnson, who was a pro Union Democrat from
Tennessee, became president, he followed in the more lenient direction. He
recognized...

What does the rose bush near the prison door symbolize in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

The first
two things any community makes, according to the narrator of by , are a
cemetery and a prison. This is an indication, of course, of two things that never change in
human nature. First is man's tendency to sin and society's need to punish; second is the
inevitability of death for all men. It is the prison door which captures our attention for this
question and, until the end, this novel.

Right next to the prison door, on
one side and almost flush against the threshold of the prison, is a wild rose bush. Every
prisoner who goes in or out of the building must see it. To the criminal (sinner) who enters the
prison, it is a "fragran[t] and fragile" reminder that beauty still exists; for the
"condemned criminal as he [comes] forth to his doom," the sight of the delicate petals
is a reminder of Nature's pity (sympathy) for him.

The narrator tells us this
rose bush "has been kept alive in history," though he cannot attest to the source of
its being there and will not presume to guess. He does say, in the last words of chapter
one: 

Finding it so directly on the threshold of our
narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do
otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope,
to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the
darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

In
the narrator's words, then, the rose symbolizes a luminescent (bright) touch of morality in this
story, or perhaps it will serve as a pure and colorful spot of relief in this woeful tail of
"frailty and sorrow." Another way to look at the rose is as a symbol of hope to all
who leave or enter the prison, a place which represents sin, condemnation, and punishment. It is
as if Nature wants to offer at least a glimmer, a fragile petal of hope to all who feel hopeless
and condemned. 

As the story progresses, the rose serves as a kind of relief
from the weight of darkness and sin.

In Hawthorne's preface to The House of the Seven Gables, what does he describe himself as?

Hawthorne describes
himself as an author who has opted "to keep undeviatingly within his immunities." By
this, he seems to mean that he has taken artistic license with some aspects of his tale in order
to present a "truth" of his choosing. Further, he says that he would be within his
rights to "manage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen
and enrich the shadows of the picture" he paints with his words. He says that it is his
prerogative to "mingle the Marvelous" with the more mundane.

At
first, he appears to denigrate authors that might be tempted to manipulate their audience in
this way, but he concludes by suggesting that it should not be considered a literary crime to do
so. Hawthorne describes this text as "Romantic" in that it tries to connect a time
long ago with the very present.

Hawthorne also describes himself as an author
who "has provided himself with a moral": namely, the idea that the misdeeds committed
by one generation actually do survive into the future generations, becoming a source of mischief
and trouble for those descendants.

He cautions anyone in his audience about
reaping the financial rewards of their ancestors' sins because they will only find that it
causes them more harm than good. If the money is "ill-gotten" for whatever reason, it
can bring nothing but misery and mayhem. Hawthorne does not want to ram this theme through the
story as one might stick a "pin through a butterfly," killing it as it preserves it,
but he will risk it in order to achieve "artistic glory."

What is the role of women in Sophocles's Oedipus the King?

This is a
tricky question because the women in the play are mostly offstage, with the exception of , 's
mother/wife. The other women specifically mentioned in the text include Merope, Oedipus's foster
mother, Ismene and , his daughters, and, as another educator cannily noted, the Sphinx (who,
although not human, is female). Finally, the ordinary women of Thebes should also be
considered.

The women of Thebes form a large
part of the crowd of supplicants at the palace at the opening of the play. Theof Elders speaks
on their behalf, telling Oedipus of the suffering of the Thebans in the plague and how "by
no birth of offspring do women surmount the pangs in which they shriek." Their babies are
dying, along with their husbands, brothers, sisters, and friends:

With such deaths, past numbering, the city perishes. Unpitied, her children lie on the
ground, spreading pestilence, with no one to mourn them. Meanwhile young wives and grey-haired
mothers raise a wail at the...

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Why were Jewish people being persecuted when Hitler was in power?

There is no
easy answer to this question.  I know, I've asked it!  Basically, the Jewish people were easy
scapegoats.  The people were already prejudiced against them and happy to blame them for the
country's problems.  Hitler could have chosen any group, but by targeting the Jews he was able
to take their businesses and money.