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In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
In her soliloquy, shortly before she kills the boys, she asks why should she do something that will hurt not only Jason, but herse...
bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...
revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...
he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
must leave and also leave the children with him. In all honesty there is no reason why he should have dismissed her in such a mann...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...
and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...
as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
to be somewhat different from those of their male counterparts. While men typically choose to kill in a very straightforward manne...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
In a paper consisting of seven pages these ancient Greek plays and heroines are contrasted and compared. Four other sources are ...
In four pages this paper discusses how events are influenced by character personalities in these works by Edison, Euripides, and W...