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Essays 151 - 180
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
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...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
Morality (age 4 - 10) - This is when moral value resides in what the person needs and wants for himself (Laurence Kohlberg, 2002)....
moral and legal issues under constant debate over the issue of abortion but many of them are misleading, use misinformation and ar...
perceives as her "rival." Rather they listen to the girl, and in the case of all good villains she switches the blame, "She is b...
This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...
In six pages this position paper discusses ways to remove the religious frame around sexual morality so that human morality is the...
In six pages this paper discusses the morality of women and how females have throughout the history of patriarchal society served ...
In ten pages the language of Arabic is considered in terms of development that is not different according to socioeconomic classes...