Essays 1 - 30
This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
(La Machine Infernale), Oedipus is a man of great looks with an ego to match, but of what could best be described as limited intel...
kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...
evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...
one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...
In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...
This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...
way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...
concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...
"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...
the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...
Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...
In five pages tis paper discusses a day in Charlemagne's life from the point of view of one of the King's cautious friends....
dramatize a shameful condition"(Dream.html). King already has the support of African-Americans, therefore, in order for his speec...
Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....
the "promissory note" that was made to each and every American when the Constitution was written (King, 1963). He and the group ha...
In this essay of five pages summary of the work's major points along with the King's atrocities against the people of the Congo ar...