YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate
Essays 151 - 180
the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...
In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...
In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
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 position paper discusses ways to remove the religious frame around sexual morality so that human morality is the...
This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...
In 5 pages this paper compares O'Neill's play with Greek tragedies in a consideration of similarities, differences, and morality. ...
In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...
In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...
not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
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 six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...
This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...
In six pages this paper discusses the morality of women and how females have throughout the history of patriarchal society served ...
A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...
In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...
their apples will find himself stuck fast to the tree until Open Heart releases them ("Apple Tree" 453). God agrees. 8. ACTIONS ...
between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...