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resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

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...

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...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

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

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

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

used to hang around Walts drawing board (Thomas, 1976). In 1931, just three years after the creation of the famous character, Mick...

went through the novel in blindness, and illustrate how that also incorporates the reality of self-denial and lack of, as well as ...

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 ...

strongly influenced by foreign attitudes and ideas, and undergoing some difficulty in reconciling these new cultural parameters wi...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

In 5 pages this young adult novel and its theme regarding responsibility, love, and suffering are considered. There are 2 sources...

This paper analyzes one of Frost's most famous works, which many critics interpret as Frost's own longing for death. However the ...

In five pages this Portuguese poem of the 16th century is examined in terms of the expression of dogmatism and nationalism by the ...