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Orestes And Redemption In Two Different Ages, Kevin Lantry
Orestes And Redemption In Two Different Ages, Kevin Lantry
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
In the attempt to ascertain man's changes in world view, the Orestes stories of the Greek tragedians were compared with the Orestes stories of six 20th-century playwrights. The Orestes plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were contrasted with the similar plays of Hofmannstahl, Jeffers, O'Neill, Giraudoux, Eliot, and Sartre. The Greek tragedians appear to terminate Orestes' retribution for inherited evil and a just crime by an actual, total, restorative redemption, divinely instigated. The 20th century playwrights portray only the potential termination of Orestes' retribution in a distant future, by means of a salvation that is self-instigated, costly, and completely non-restorative. …
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight : Entertainment--The Author's Intention, Gregory Kabanuk
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight : Entertainment--The Author's Intention, Gregory Kabanuk
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The subject of this paper is the Gawain poet and his monumental poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The concern will not be with the poet's identity or social rank, but will instead be with his motives. In some places this paper will appear to work backwards, assuming that since a certain effect was achieved, it must have been intended, but that is not an uncommon assumption in literary criticism.
Entertainment value will be stressed not because Sir Gawain is exclusively entertainment, but because the primary purpose of the author was to entertain, as a sermon may be …