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part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

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

(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...

will marry, her childhood sweetheart who may be a poor tailor, but she is her true love and she will not agree to marry anything l...

portrays him as being. Jacks childhood environment is riddled with dysfunctional elements, everything from domestic violence to ...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

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...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...

the mustard was naught: now Ill stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forswor...

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

preferred method of service is that he cannot be trusted. He admits to being deceitful, purely for his own purposes," and we know...

to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering any universal explanation virtually impossible. The problem wit...

Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...