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classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

of honor. Macbeth is one of Shakespeares darkest and most intriguing plays- a tragedy of ego, obsession, guilt and ambition. Ma...

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...

myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

In seven pages this paper answers questions regarding characters Iago, Othello, and Desdemona featured in William Shakespeare's Ot...

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...

In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

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

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...

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In four pages the question regarding the nature of man is examined within the context of William Shakespeare's King Lear....