Essays 271 - 300
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
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...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
(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...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
In seven pages this paper analyzes casting within the context of the plays A Doll's House, Antigone, The Cherry Orchard, Three Tal...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
In five pages this essay focuses upon Anouih's retelling of the classical Greek drama particularly in terms of the conflict betwee...
In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...