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were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

video conferencing, mass media, knowledge-based systems and interactive multimedia. "The coming decades will see the rise of mult...

In three pages this paper discusses how the empires of ancient Greece and Rome influenced contemporary society in a consideration ...

In 10 pages this paper examines the works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in an assessment of the 1950s...

In five pages the relationships between dramatic structures and themes as they exist within these three plays by William Shakespea...

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

In five pages the dramatic structures and themes are compared in this examination of a trio of William Shakespeare's plays. Two s...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

made, living in the Garden of Eden. They were told, by God, not to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Eve, however, was ...

his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...

the blink of an eye one could carry on a conversation with someone half way across the world. What came from this mingling of cult...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

writing was the mainstay of civilised life. A seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in their e...

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...

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...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...

with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...

a Dream" speech has, in the years since he delivered it, achieved an almost mythic status, both for its cultural significance and ...

as a direct result of the economic changes may have a low level of confidence which will impact on their spending and increase the...

Luther King wrote a long and moving letter from his cell in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. In 2007, Barack Obama gave a very movin...

mud hut where Hassan lived with his father" (Hosseini 6). While there was certainly hatred both expressed and suppressed among th...

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

promote awareness of the atrocities occurring in these compounds. Like Williams, Sheppard spent 20 years in and around the Congo F...

Church. Priests are expected to be celibate, and sex is to be reserved for married couples only for the purpose of procreation. ...

conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...