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Muhammad and Islam

II. The Life of Muhammad Muhammad was born in the city of Mecca, an important trading center in...

Racism and 'The Million Man March'

In seven pages this paper examines racism and 'the Million Man March' in a consideration of Million Man March Wrong Message, Wron...

Blanche Du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In two pages this paper examines the play's first scene in terms of how it presents Blanche Du Bois's possible demise....

Title Significance of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In two pages this essay analyzes the play's title significance and how it influences both plot and characterization....

Hamlet - A Jungian Reading

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at "Hamlet". Jungian archetypes are used to analyze the play's themes. Paper uses one so...

Hamlet - An Existential Reading

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hamlet. Using textual evidence, an existential reading of the play's themes is give...

Chaldean and Greek Mythology and the Roles Played by Oracles and Fate

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the roles played by oracles and fate in the mythological tales of Achilles, Oedipus, ...

The Ancient Greek Plays 'Oedipus' and 'Lysistrata'

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the tragedy of Oedipus differs from the comedy Lysistrata. There are 3 additional sources in...

'Zorba and the Boss' in Drew Hurley's Distraction

In five pages this play is examined in terms of its eclectic qualities and also examines such characters as 'the Boss' and Zorba t...

Greek Tragedy and Euripides

In ten pages this research paper examines how the Greek perspective of tragedy is featured in Euripides' plays The Women of Troy a...

Oedipus by Sophocles and its Structure

In six pages this paper presents a structural analysis of this ancient Greek tragedy and examines how the rising action and confli...

Lysistrata's Character

In five pages Lysistrata as featured in the famous ancient Greek play is the focus of this character analysis. Three sources are ...

Classicism and Greek Culture

a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...

Tragic Characteristics of Oedipus the King

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

Greek Theater and Women's Role

has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...

Two Greek TextsThucydides' “Athenian Thesis” and the “Unjust Speech” in Aristophanes' The Clouds

by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...

Feminism and Lysistrata

and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Revenge in Medea by Euripides

by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...

O'Neill and Aeschylus Comparative Analysis of Electra and Oresteia

seeks revenge against his brother, by killing two of his nephews (Thyrestis sons) and serving them up to their father in a royal b...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Medea by Euripides

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

Greek Tragedy and Antigone, a Tragedy by Jean Anouil and The Flies by Jean Paul Sartre

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

Examining Agamemnon by Aeschylus Within the Context of History

same standard as was Clytemestras during that era because Agamemnons unfaithfulness did not threaten the integrity of the family, ...

Chorus' Role in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill and Greek Tragedy

In 5 pages this paper compares O'Neill's play with Greek tragedies in a consideration of similarities, differences, and morality. ...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Fate

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

Business World, Morality, and Gender in Sophocles' Antigone

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

Alcestis by Euripides

In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...