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is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...

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

In five pages this paper examines how humiliation is used as a theme in Ibsen's play and Hawthorne's novel. Two sources are cited...

In five pages this paper considers the way these playwrights revealed social criticism through the irony of their respective plays...

Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...

In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...

In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

In 5 pages this paper examines how perceptions of truth are shaped through illusion in these two plays. There are 3 sources cited...

male dominance. Heddas immoral, destructive character is a direct product of the oppressiveness of a patriarchal society. As a m...

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

In five pages this paper analyzed the family conflict experienced by father Creon and his son Haemon in Antigone and how it fits w...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

In five pages this report analyzes how power is featured in these respective works and how they influence the featured characters ...

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...

colorless and so the arrival of Hilda is compared to the arrival of a "radiant apparition" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). Hilda, says He...

In five pages this paper examines the King's role in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and William Shakespeare's King Lear. The...

In five pages this paper psychologically probes the conflicts within Hedda Gabler as presented in Ibsen's play. Four sources are ...

In five pages families, celebrations, food, clothing, and house construction are among the topics discussed in this consideration ...

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...

In five pages this report examines the intensity of mendacity as featured in these literary works. There are no other sources lis...

they can to avoid conflict in the family unit. An ecological approach to studying families includes the interaction of the membe...

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...