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

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

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

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

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

play is Everyman, who obviously stands for everyone in the audience. This is play designed to teach a lesson, and the lesson is si...

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

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

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...

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

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

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

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

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

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

was assumed to make up to the overall personality of nay man, hence the title everyman, with seventeen characters representing a...

Morality (age 4 - 10) - This is when moral value resides in what the person needs and wants for himself (Laurence Kohlberg, 2002)....

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

of them all. The allegory of "Everyman", which may also be defined as a parable or a metaphor, is based on what it is that "Everym...

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

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 ...

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

is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...