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declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

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...

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...

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...

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

Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...

In seven pages this research paper discusses the various interpretations of this classic Greek tragedy including those of Sigmund ...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

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

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

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 ...

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...

(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,...

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...