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Essays 211 - 240
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...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
In three pages the differences and similarities in these two plays are discussed in order to determine if they should be regarded ...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...
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 this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....
kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...
with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...
the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...
neighbor. Reg, Ruth and Annie are siblings and Annie looks after their invalid mother in the family home in which they are all sta...
Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...
Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...
This five-page essay describes how societal prejudice creates invisibility and reverberates in the victimization and self-hatred c...
values that had defined Homers story of the war to capture Troy. Aeneas reluctance to leave his native city is therefore both "a ...
In ten pages the First World War trilogy Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road by Pat Barker are discussed. Seven...
This paper examines historiographical metafiction techniques employed by Pat Barker in the Regeneration Trilogy Regeneration, The ...
In five pages this report examines the marriage between King Arthur and Queen Guinevere as presented in this second novel of the t...
a true sense of what is American pop culture, one needs only to venture into a childs bedroom. Since 1977, it is likely that ther...
Levi and Wiesel came from backgrounds which were completely different. Wiesels background was Eastern European. He, therefore, had...
between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...
example charge nurses may make assignments in terms of patients to different style for the shift, there will not necessarily be in...
Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...
It grows along with the addiction to the power source. Addictions are as unique as are individuals, and therefore the effects can...
powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...