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where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

The Bible, on the other hand, has a much looser structure and was not written by a single author, or group of authors, at one part...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

for their ethical behavior. He identified six stages which were classified in three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and pos...

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

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

great deal of examples that demonstrates how and why the inconsistencies suggest that the stories were coming from more than one s...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

the kindred heaven. It was this earth, mixed with water, that Prometheus, child of Titan Iapetus, fashioned into the image of the ...

In Samuel, the story begins with Hannah and her husband. The woman had prayed to the Lord for a child and soon she was blessed wit...

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

that it took root in that region, transformed by the demands of laymen and -women and the responses of clerical leaders. Southern ...

When we consider the Popol Vuh we see that this is an ancient Mayan text that has many stories and tales. Further more it...

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

In a paper consisting of five pages these female characters are compared and contrasted in terms of their focus and personal devel...

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

importance. He makes numerous promises to God if He will just save him. In Psalm 137, the Israelites are crying for help from the ...