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Female Characters, Gender Roles, and Humor in the Sex and the City TV Series

This HBO cable series is critiqued in 5 pages with gender roles, humor, and female characterizations analyzed....

Gender and Culture in America by Linda Stone and Nancy McKee

In five pages this book is examined and various questions regarding gender, biology, and culture are answered....

Various 'Pickup' Approaches

In seven pages this paper considers how both genders employ 'pickup' lines in an outmoded meeting approach that is still being use...

Life Analysis of This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

- Toby and his mother are escaping an abusive situation (one that, ironically enough, Tobys mother was used to, having dealt with ...

Different Types of Sociological Research Approaches

those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Transgenderism: A Psychological Disorder

Manual (DSM) III, transgenderism has long been described as a psychological problem due in great part to the manner by which child...

Prometheus Bound

from the face of the earth; yet Prometheus loved them, and gave secretly to them the gift of fire, and arts whereby they could pro...

Comparative Analysis of Prometheus Bound and Medea

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

Trilogy by Aeschylus and Justice

as a spoil of war. Her first husband had been killed by Agamemnon and her child killed in front of her. It can be said that she ha...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

An Analysis of Plays from Ancient and Modern Eras

changed, shaped by events which have unfolded. Greek society was also shaped by the events which unfolded. In Ipthigenia at Auli...

Deception and Mistaken Identity in Wilde and Aeschylus

motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...

Women in Athens During the Fifth Century

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

Justice and Society in Orestes' Story

In five pages this paper examines how within Eumenides by Aeschylus within Orestes' story rests Greek perspectives on society and ...

Feminism and the Role of Clytemnestra

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

Analyzing Elektra and Oresteia

An overview of the works by Hofmannsthal and Aeschylus is first presented in this paper consisting of seven pages and then the the...

Describing Life in Persia

entitled Gates of Fire, as well as others, one can get a sense of how the Persians lived at the time. In the novel, Pressfield foc...

The Peloponnesion War and 'The Eumenides' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Athens failed in fulfilling the hopes expressed by Aeschylus in his play ...

An Examination of the Literary Criticism Launched Against Athenian Politics

This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...

Classical Tragedies of Greece

In five pages this paper examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...

Agamemnon by Aeschylus and Human Sacrifice

In seven pages this paper examines the tragedy by Aeschylus in terms of its shocking thematic featuring of human sacrifice. There...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

Clytemnestra's Character in Aeschylus' Agamemnon

agamemnon.html). Throughout the first part of the play, Clytemnestra appears to be a long-suffering (due to her husbands absence...

Roles of Women in the Works of Euripides and Aeschylus

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines how women's social roles are depicted in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by ...

Classical Literature and the Portrayal of the 'Faustian Bargain'

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...