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you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
In five pages this essay focuses upon Anouih's retelling of the classical Greek drama particularly in terms of the conflict betwee...
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...
(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
of their relationships with him. They meet in...
This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...
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...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...
In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
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 ...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
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...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...