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they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...
society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...
must leave and also leave the children with him. In all honesty there is no reason why he should have dismissed her in such a mann...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
to be somewhat different from those of their male counterparts. While men typically choose to kill in a very straightforward manne...
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...
revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...
In her soliloquy, shortly before she kills the boys, she asks why should she do something that will hurt not only Jason, but herse...
and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...
bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...
as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...
watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
One of the of the fundamental reasons for the success of the Romans was their ability to adopted the best components of the cultur...
is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
studying it in the same way we study language (Csapo, 2005, p. 220). His theory puts more emphasis on the meaning of myth rather t...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...