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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 five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
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...
In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...
In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...
In a paper consisting of seven pages these ancient Greek plays and heroines are contrasted and compared. Four other sources are ...
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing paths of enlightenment each of these characters took regarding their own heroism...
In a paper consisting of five pages these female characters are compared and contrasted in terms of their focus and personal devel...
standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
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...
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...
been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...
on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...
this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...
in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
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...
having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...
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...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...
since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...
city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...