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left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
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...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
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...
of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...