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In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
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...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
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 six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
Examines three principles from Colin Powell's 13 leadership principles. This is a 3-page paper....
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
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...
Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...
In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...