SEARCH RESULTS

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

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

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...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

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. ...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

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...

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

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

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...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...

of "six rooms and a pile of clapboard, a sad comedown from the sixth floor splendor of Central Park North" (Gottfried 12). They li...

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

This essay pertain to fools and clowns in Shakespeare's plays. The writer describes the role of the actor's performance on creatin...

This essay briefly summarizes the plot of MIller's play "Death of a Salesman" and then analyzes the Willy Loman's character. Three...

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...

secure the Democratic nomination for president. The answer to the question of just how Kerry managed to do so is quite complex an...

may be utilised (McInnis, 2001). Part of these process can be seen as that concept of Habeas Corpus. This was a concept that was u...