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In five pages the tales of Oedipus and Jason are analyzed in terms of the differences and similarities that exist between them. T...
In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...
when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...
were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...
were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...
audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...
the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...
to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...
and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...
achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...
the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...
In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...
In five pages this paper examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...
those ruled by determinism. Having grasped the meaning behind Oedipus the King and Othello, it can easily be argued that Oedipus ...
In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...
In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...
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...
of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
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...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...