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This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...
will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...
he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...
More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...
one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...
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...
concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...
ar?te (Hooker 1996). In the works of Homer such as the Iliad, ar?te is used to describe both the Greek and Trojan characters, in o...
This paper contends the US prison system is a moral hubris and deserved of significant ethical reform. There are three sources in...
of the gods in these works appears to be more focused on generating chaos than introducing peace and tranquility to the universe. ...
destroyed civilization and the world as we know it because this point is not relevant. Whatever the rationale, the world is gone. ...