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her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...
will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...
In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...
In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...
In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...
This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...
In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...