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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...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
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...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
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 ...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
Pushkin was a Russian poet who eventually began writing prose. This essay examines and analyzes a very successful work of prose en...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Brave New World. The themes of the book are analyzed as instances of social critici...
in Will in order to save him from going to jail after Will assaults a police officer. This in turn establishes the time frame whic...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Kozintsey's "Hamlet". Marxist themes are explored by analyzing the differences from t...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Milton's "When I Consider How My Light is Spent". The sonnet is analyzed for Biblic...
In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at "Hamlet". Jungian archetypes are used to analyze the play's themes. Paper uses one so...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Thomas Gray's "Elegy". Themes are analyzed through various discussion questions. Pap...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at 4 Ezra. Apocalyptic themes are analyzed by looking at several key passages. Paper us...
Witness to Jonestown, provides a film that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of an event that is indelibly etched in the memo...
and intriguing guide that advises readers on how to watch movies from a Christian perspective. Godawas purpose is not to evaluate ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at three short stories including "The Cranes", "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Necklace"....
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the ethics of forensic chemistry. An article depicting this theme is summarized and ...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....