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In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
(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...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
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 ...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
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 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 paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...
In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...
In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...
In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
not romantically involved. Jack is imitating a robot: his arms are bent at the elbows, hes bent at the waist and moving very stiff...
In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...