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they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...

In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...

In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...

In a paper consisting of five pages the differing paths of enlightenment each of these characters took regarding their own heroism...

In a paper consisting of seven pages these ancient Greek plays and heroines are contrasted and compared. Four other sources are ...

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...

In a paper consisting of five pages these female characters are compared and contrasted in terms of their focus and personal devel...

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...