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Essays 541 - 570
when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...
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...
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...
audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...
the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
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 examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...
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 this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...
In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
In five pages this paper examines the cunning Odysseus in this work by Sophocles. There are no other sources cited....
In five pages this paper examines how human nature is featured in classic literary works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, and...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In seven pages this paper considers how social isolation is represented in Philoctetes by Sophocles, Apology by Plato, and Night b...
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 these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...
Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...
those ruled by determinism. Having grasped the meaning behind Oedipus the King and Othello, it can easily be argued that Oedipus ...
In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...
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 five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
(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...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...
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...