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planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

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

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...

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

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

possessed through their control of sex with their men. The entire idea of controlling the men was essentially the idea of Lysistra...

the female gender could be perceived within the myriad components of existence, the early feminist movement served to establish a ...

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

contained in the fifth day, the tenth novella, was that of Senora Pedro di Vinciolo. For years, this woman had endured the indign...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

theological thought (Moritz). Some of the fundamental thoughts within the texts maintained that women should be kept meek and subm...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

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

a mixed population of Greeks, Romans and Jews with more Greeks than the other two (Johnson, 1998). Paul began his ministry there i...