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(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...
you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....
In three pages this paper discusses how irony is used by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men....
those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a wh...
In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....
the characters, in fact, notes that they are there without thought on the part of whoever put them together as they state, it is "...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
The use of irony by Burgess in his novel is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages and includes the impact of dramatic a...
and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...
Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....
their histories are defined and how their interactions take place. The play also enhanced my understanding of how physical elemen...
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...
This 3 page paper gives a example for verbal, situational, and character types of irony. This paper includes three instances in th...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...
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 ...
enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...