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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...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
In five pages this paper examines this strong and unconventional female character. There are no other sources listed....
The common theme of keeping secrets links these two characters in this five page paper. There are no other bibliographic sources ...
these sites are similar. For the purposes of this paper five such sites were visited with the intent of comparing and contrasting...
In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages Jason's characterization as represented by Euripides in his play is examined. There are no other sources listed....
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
In four pages this paper discusses how events are influenced by character personalities in these works by Edison, Euripides, and W...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...