YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Righteousness in Antigone by Sophocles
Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this paper examines how human nature is featured in classic literary works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, and...
Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...
In five pages this paper examines the cunning Odysseus in this work by Sophocles. There are no other sources cited....
The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...
In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...
In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...
In seven pages this paper considers how social isolation is represented in Philoctetes by Sophocles, Apology by Plato, and Night b...
In 5 pages the recurrences of these motifs in the dramas of ancient Greece are examined in this work by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...
a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...
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...
Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...
others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...
prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...