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this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
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...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
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...
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 order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
In five pages this report analyzes how power is featured in these respective works and how they influence the featured characters ...
biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...
content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
In four pages this paper examines the play's good vs. evil conflict in a consideration of how divine power is dominated by demonic...
In five pages this essay discusses the tragic elements of Oedipus the King in terms of plot, the Chorus' role, plot elements, and ...
In five pages this paper analyzed the family conflict experienced by father Creon and his son Haemon in Antigone and how it fits w...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....
In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...
This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...
In five pages this paper examines a passage from the Greek tragedy in order to determine to what extent Oedipus portrays himself a...
The trials featured in these works are contrasted and compared in a report consisting of five pages. Two sources are cited in the...
one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...
In 5 pages this paper examines the individual and a fate he cannot control in an analysis of Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, and Oed...
In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...