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leaves Cordelia dowerless. As luck or providence would have it, through a twist of fate, Cordelia became the queen of France. Go...

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Euripides' portrayal of family relationships in his play and the commentary that continues to res...

before establishing their own enclave in the Cithaeron wilderness. Young King Pentheus vows to keep his empire intact and dedicat...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

In five pages this research paper analyzes the chorus and its continued deity reverence despite its expressed revenge against its ...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

In five pages The Bacchae play is examined in terms of its representation, performance, and staging. There are no other sources l...

In seven pages this paper considers how the classical Greek dramatist critiqued heroism in a contrast of antiheroes Pentheus, Mede...

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

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

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

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

Comedy", Europe was in the midst of a transitional period. The Christian church was already well established, but many of the most...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

only needs to find his way to the underworld so that he might see and confer with his father. Sybil replies that the path to the ...

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

that they escaped due to their bravery. Then they both go on to say that there will come a time when they will look back on these ...

the character Hektor was a great Trojan warrior. He was adored by the people of Troy. Achilleus was his archenemy. His parents ...

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

In fifteen pages this paper attributes the wound of Dido to being childless as much as it is for the loss of Aeneas in this analys...

the thing / With timber braces, towering to the sky, / Too big for the gates, not to be hauled inside / And give the people back t...

In six pages this paper examines 'The Aeneid' in terms of the dialogue with the dead featured by Virgil and its difference with 'T...

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...