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In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...
In 5 pages this paper examines how perceptions of truth are shaped through illusion in these two plays. There are 3 sources cited...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...
In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
better, he goes off on a tangent in which he imagines himself as the ruler of a utopian society on the island (II.1.148-156). Wh...
poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...
seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...
Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...
and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...
3 pages that compares two Shakespeare films. There are 2 sources....
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
years because he seems to care a bit for the father of Henry, John of Gaunt. In these respects one can see that Richard II may wel...
has credible reasons for his melancholy state, as his father has been dead only two months, and his mother has already remarried. ...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...