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In seven pages this paper considers how the classical Greek dramatist critiqued heroism in a contrast of antiheroes Pentheus, Mede...
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...
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...
In her soliloquy, shortly before she kills the boys, she asks why should she do something that will hurt not only Jason, but herse...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
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...
In five pages Euripides' tragedy is examined in terms of how Medea was ultimately corrupted by her desire for power. There are no...
In five pages this paper compares Euripides' character of Medea with the character of Penelope in Homer's 'The Odyssey.' There a...
In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...
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 six pages this comparative analysis examines the suffering and fate of female protagonists Dredriu and Medea in these works. T...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
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...
Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...
This paper examines how women in Ancient Greek society were portrayed in a comparative analysis of the plays Lysistrata by Aristop...
In five pages Canova's 'Perseus and the Head of Medea' and Degas' 'The Little 14 Year Old Dancer' are compared in terms of the wor...
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...
they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...
society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...
possessed through their control of sex with their men. The entire idea of controlling the men was essentially the idea of Lysistra...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...
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...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
In four pages this paper discusses how events are influenced by character personalities in these works by Edison, Euripides, and W...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...