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In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...
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...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
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 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
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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...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
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...
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...
In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...
In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...
Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...
actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...
In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...
not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...
In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
In five pages this paper analyzed the family conflict experienced by father Creon and his son Haemon in Antigone and how it fits w...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...