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in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts these two literary works regarding the portrayal of morality in each. There are n...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

although portrayed by many in a sympathetic light Homer see her as a wicked woman who brings shame on herself and her society thro...

In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

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

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...

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

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. ...

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

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

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

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...