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Essays 541 - 570
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...
the god Apollo sees" but Teiresias has not come (Sophocles 36). This initial perception of Teiresias capacity and Oedipus convict...
In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...
In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...
In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...
In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...
contrasts dramatically with Antigones ideas, and forms the basis for the conflict that drives the plot. At the core of Creons val...
logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...
did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...
In eight pages these tragic heroes created by William Shakespeare and Sophocles are contrasted and compared. Eight sources are ci...
In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...
In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...
In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...
In a paper consisting of three pages the protagonist's distinguishing between appearances and reality is assessed in these works b...
In five pages this paper discusses how these characters featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles can be describes as mythic because th...
This paper consists of nine pages and considers how violence is perpetuated by the gods in Thebiad by Status, Oedipus Rex by Sopho...
In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...
Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...
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...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
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...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
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...