YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Set Design for the Play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Essays 121 - 150
Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...
behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
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...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...
In a paper consisting of five pages the Book of Job is compared with Oedipus the King in terms of such issues as free will. There...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...
no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...
In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...
In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...
In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...