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- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...

contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...

In seven pages this essay discusses how Oedipus was able to 'see' certain things after blinding himself, from this knowledge he ga...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

In five pages the tales of Oedipus and Jason are analyzed in terms of the differences and similarities that exist between them. T...

In five pages psychosocial development's 5 stages as defined by Freud are discussed along with the growing Oedipus complex controv...

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

This paper discusses three classic literary works, Gilgamesh, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and Oedipus Rex. The author draws comparisons from...

In 4 pages this paper argues that because of his life circumstances Oedipus was not guilty for the events which turned his life in...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

be a relative of Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem features as its protagonist Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, who is revered by hi...

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...

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