Essays 91 - 120
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...
In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...
This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...
In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...
In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
taken into account. In reading works written a long time ago, such as Antigone as noted above, or Platos Republic as another examp...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
In seven pages this paper analyzes casting within the context of the plays A Doll's House, Antigone, The Cherry Orchard, Three Tal...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...