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not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...
In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...
problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...