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In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
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 seven pages this paper analyzes casting within the context of the plays A Doll's House, Antigone, The Cherry Orchard, Three Tal...
In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...
enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
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...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In five pages this essay focuses upon Anouih's retelling of the classical Greek drama particularly in terms of the conflict betwee...
This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...
taken into account. In reading works written a long time ago, such as Antigone as noted above, or Platos Republic as another examp...
In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...
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...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
(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...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
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...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...