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Sophocles' Antigone, Homer's 'The Iliad' and Fate

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Authority and Its Historical Challenges

This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...

Homer's Penelope and Sophocles' Antigone

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

Greek Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...

Chorus Role in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

Heroism in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus, and Heroes

In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

Literary Depictions of Greed

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

First Feminist Perspective in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....

Audience Identification and Tragic Catharsis in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

Defiance of Authority in Life and in Literature

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

Three Novels by Toni Morrison and Northern Characters' Ties to the South

In six pages this paper examines the ties to the South northern based characters have in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Beloved by Toni...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Minor Characters' Significance

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

Greek Tragedies and the Role of Sacrifice

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

A Comparison of A Man For All Seasons and Antigone

enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...

Strong Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Sophocles

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

Societal Struggles of Women

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Sophocles, Shakespeare and Actions That Speak Louder than Words

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

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

The Tragic Hero Antigone?

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...

Comparing Antigone, Medea, and Nora Helmer

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

Morality According to Plato and Sophocles

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

Creon and Joe Turner Compared

In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...