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Essays 31 - 60
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...
In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...
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...
(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...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
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...