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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...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

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...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

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...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

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...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...