YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Modern World and the Legacy of Antigone
Essays 241 - 270
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
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...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
that the CIA covertly engineered a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected president and instituted a dictatorial rul...
the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...
and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...
past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...
Furthermore, included is an interesting photograph of Kennedy from his college days, which is very striking when one realizes that...
drive toward free speech and political freedom" (Rath, 1994, p. 530). The unrest became increasingly obvious with no chance to "q...
for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...
more than six feet tall and that he was one of several presidents who had achieved a second term falls (Schlesinger 179). Susan Pa...
devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...
went to Yale to get his law degree he would coach football, and while many lawyers managed to find a way to stay out of war, Ford ...
power to see to it that Stalin took over after his ultimate demise (Pipes, 1994). Nevertheless, their myriad comrade associations...
historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...
were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...
it honorably. This is, as mentioned, a very common perspective from generations of Americans who lived the war. But, there are al...
In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...
Lenin saw in Russias expanding working class - the proletariat - the seeds of revolution" (Anonymous The Road to Revolution, 1997;...
such a car (Caryl, 1996). The projects first director, Ferdinand Porsche, was a "nuts-and-bolts" man who was able to help turn Hit...
as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...