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In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....
behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...
one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...
In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...
In a paper consisting of five pages the Book of Job is compared with Oedipus the King in terms of such issues as free will. There...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...
of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...
Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...
in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...
the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...
audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...
to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...
when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...