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no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...

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...

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...

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 five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

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

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

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 ...

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...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

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...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

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...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...