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Essays 151 - 180
his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...
"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...
Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...
before establishing their own enclave in the Cithaeron wilderness. Young King Pentheus vows to keep his empire intact and dedicat...
In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...
In five pages this research paper analyzes the chorus and its continued deity reverence despite its expressed revenge against its ...
In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....
about Jasons desertion is the fact that Medea compromised her own existence as a means by which to save his life and is reciprocat...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
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 six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
no matter how harsh - are based within the foundation being forced to cope with unmitigated stress, fear and anger. Another simil...
"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...
actually benefits the economy of the United States? Anyone with any intelligence, or anyone who pays even the slightest bit of att...
has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...
be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...
a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...
can choose not to marry, by and large, that is an unpopular choice. While the term spinster is no longer bandied about, certainly ...