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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 ...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

In six pages William Shakespeare's protagonist is analyzed in terms of his emotional extremes, which collectively represent his tr...

that the fact that death is common does nothing to diminish Hamlets grief. Hamlet picks up her use of the words "seems," however, ...

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...

In five pages the tragic flaws of these Emily Bronte characters as revealed to be their dissatisfaction with self are examined. T...

In five pages this paper analyzes Romeo Montague's fatal personality flaw as depicted in the tragic play Romeo and Juliet by Willi...

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...

In five pages this paper examines how William Shakespeare employed the hesitation motif in this tragic play in an analysis of how ...

In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...

keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...