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Essays 301 - 328
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...
to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...
of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...
Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...
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...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...
from the face of the earth; yet Prometheus loved them, and gave secretly to them the gift of fire, and arts whereby they could pro...
era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...
as a spoil of war. Her first husband had been killed by Agamemnon and her child killed in front of her. It can be said that she ha...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...
changed, shaped by events which have unfolded. Greek society was also shaped by the events which unfolded. In Ipthigenia at Auli...
motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...
specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...
agamemnon.html). Throughout the first part of the play, Clytemnestra appears to be a long-suffering (due to her husbands absence...
In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Athens failed in fulfilling the hopes expressed by Aeschylus in his play ...
In seven pages this paper examines the tragedy by Aeschylus in terms of its shocking thematic featuring of human sacrifice. There...