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in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...

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...

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...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...

In a paper consisting of five pages these female characters are compared and contrasted in terms of their focus and personal devel...

In a paper consisting of seven pages these ancient Greek plays and heroines are contrasted and compared. Four other sources are ...

In a paper consisting of five pages the differing paths of enlightenment each of these characters took regarding their own heroism...

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

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...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

in and curse God. He tells his wife, advising her that, just as they accept good from the hand of God, they have to also be willin...

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...

In four pages this paper discusses the dominance of the all powerful Greek mythological gods within the context of this tragedy by...