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In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...
In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
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...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...
In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...
on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...
this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...
Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
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...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...
In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...
More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...
This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...
This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...
the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...