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In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...

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...

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

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

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

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

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

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...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

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

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

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

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...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

In eight pages these tragic heroes created by William Shakespeare and Sophocles are contrasted and compared. Eight sources are ci...

those ruled by determinism. Having grasped the meaning behind Oedipus the King and Othello, it can easily be argued that Oedipus ...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

In three pages this paper discusses creation's divinity as an important theme of the poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake....