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In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...
Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...
In five pages this play in three acts is analyzed in its representation of themes emotional warfare, power, and sex....
rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....
Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...
In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
This essay asserts that "Everyman," the fifteenth century morality play, offer a perspective on death that is very analogous to th...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
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...
In five pages the characters of Uncle Marcos and Nicolas are contrasted and compared in terms of similarities in relationships, in...
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 compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...
This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...