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In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

This 5 page paper focuses on the lead characters Antigone and Willy Loman then branches out to ancillary characters to establish h...

This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...

taken into account. In reading works written a long time ago, such as Antigone as noted above, or Platos Republic as another examp...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

In six pages the ways in which Antigone handles with what is an impossible choice and how it serves in developing true moral chara...

In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...

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...

Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

(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...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

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...

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...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

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 ...

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...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

In three pages the differences and similarities in these two plays are discussed in order to determine if they should be regarded ...

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...