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they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

thoroughly documented in the concordance that was consulted (Fireside Bible Publishers) and it appears in Neh. 4:15, Job 28:2, Pro...

for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage...

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

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 ...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

that angle. Heaths study followed the students into the schools during the first few years of desegregation and this is where sh...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

have a user name or password, as well as individual user control when it came to files (Wildstrom, 2001). While some files can be ...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper considers how the written word can be used to communicate very specific things, including the r...

he appears sincere and supportive, such as when Richard asks what one has said of him, and Buckingham replies "Nothing that I resp...