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In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...

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

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...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

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

In five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...

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

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

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

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

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...

myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...

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

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

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

In 5 pages this paper examines how perceptions of truth are shaped through illusion in these two plays. There are 3 sources cited...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...

In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...

In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...

the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

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