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of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

higher moral ground according to international law? Does any of them? The following examination of this crisis looks at it from th...

knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

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...

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

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

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

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...