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Essays 481 - 510
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...
to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...
lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...
prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...
others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...
a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...
In five pages this report discusses how Homer, Sophocles, and Hesiod would have conceptualized justice regarding the 911 terrorist...
plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...
upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...
Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...
been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...
In a paper consisting of five pages these female characters are compared and contrasted in terms of their focus and personal devel...
murder, Oedipus remarks, absentmindedly, "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth"...
In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...
In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...
In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...
In seven pages this paper considers how social isolation is represented in Philoctetes by Sophocles, Apology by Plato, and Night b...
In 5 pages the recurrences of these motifs in the dramas of ancient Greece are examined in this work by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...