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bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

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...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...

In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...