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very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
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 ...
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...
this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...
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 seven pages this paper analyzes casting within the context of the plays A Doll's House, Antigone, The Cherry Orchard, Three Tal...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
In five pages this essay focuses upon Anouih's retelling of the classical Greek drama particularly in terms of the conflict betwee...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...
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...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
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...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...