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Essays 241 - 270
possessed through their control of sex with their men. The entire idea of controlling the men was essentially the idea of Lysistra...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...
he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...
and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...
to be somewhat different from those of their male counterparts. While men typically choose to kill in a very straightforward manne...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
the market. This sums up the strategy of a company which wishes to be a leader rather than a second mover in...
operators, or the market is dominated by only a few operators, even if they are operating under subsidiary companies giving a domi...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...
In five pages Jason's characterization as represented by Euripides in his play is examined. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...
In four pages this paper discusses how events are influenced by character personalities in these works by Edison, Euripides, and W...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...