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This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...
In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...
In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...
no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
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 ...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
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...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
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...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...