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In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...
This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...
as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...
In five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...
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...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...
logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...