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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 paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

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...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

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...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

that they may have a different response to it, actively choosing to either accept the message, or to reject it and interpret it di...

(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...

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...

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

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

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

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...