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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...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

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

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

moral and legal issues under constant debate over the issue of abortion but many of them are misleading, use misinformation and ar...

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...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

This essay examines thematic elements in Hansberry's play, A Raisin In The Sun. The author focuses on morals and family values. ...

In eight pages this paper discusses how Chaucer addressed morality and immorality in such stories as 'The Friar's Tale,' 'The Prio...

This paper examines the ways Shakespeare portrays the concepts of loss and restoration in his plays, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macb...

In twelve pages this paper examines how the theme of homoeroticism manifests itself in the Shakespearean plays Twelfth Night, As Y...

This paper addresses maturity and prolonged adolescence as themes in Lorraine Hansberry's play, Raisin In The Sun. This five page...

her hatred of her husband, and her desire for vengeance. "Meanwhile, she has taken to herself a boyfriend, Aegisthus, brother of c...

so many things that Everyman had hoped to have done by the time Death arrived. As it is, Death has arrived and Everyman must make ...

David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...

impossible for women to live independently. One of their options was to become successful and financially independent prostitutes....

poverty and very dependant and aware of the dangers associated with honest work such as the dangers of lung disease and premature ...

in the play. The statement is in regards to women, and their place in the world: "She (Miss Julie) is the victim of false belief -...