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In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...

the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

In 5 pages this paper examines how perceptions of truth are shaped through illusion in these two plays. There are 3 sources cited...

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....

In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...