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Essays 421 - 450
an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
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...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
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...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
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...
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 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, ...
In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...
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 pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
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 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 5 pages the recurrences of these motifs in the dramas of ancient Greece are examined in this work by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...
In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...
murder, Oedipus remarks, absentmindedly, "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth"...
In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...
In five pages this paper examines how human nature is featured in classic literary works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, and...
In five pages this paper examines the cunning Odysseus in this work by Sophocles. There are no other sources cited....