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Essays 151 - 180
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
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...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...
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 six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
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...
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...