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In five pages this essay discusses the tragic elements of Oedipus the King in terms of plot, the Chorus' role, plot elements, and ...

In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...

contrasts dramatically with Antigones ideas, and forms the basis for the conflict that drives the plot. At the core of Creons val...

not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...

This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...

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

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

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 paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

In twenty pages this paper discusses how the statesmanship concept of Niccolo Machiavelli manifests itself in Parts One, Two, and ...

In five pages this paper examines the William Henry Harrison biography by James Hall in an overview of how the author approaches H...

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...