SEARCH RESULTS

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

who others looked upon with envy, and characters who others judged for their actions and essential character. The paper looks at G...

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

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 "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

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...

the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...

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

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

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

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...

(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...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

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...

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...

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...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...