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Essays 151 - 180
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
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 ...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
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...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
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...
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 ...
This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...
own language and so many believe it deserves its own place in the world distinct and separate from Canada. It is this issue, along...