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Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
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...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
(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...
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 ...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
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...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...