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In five pages The Bacchae play is examined in terms of its representation, performance, and staging. There are no other sources l...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages this research paper analyzes the chorus and its continued deity reverence despite its expressed revenge against its ...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...
and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...
before establishing their own enclave in the Cithaeron wilderness. Young King Pentheus vows to keep his empire intact and dedicat...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...
rarely the one(s) to actually suffer the injurious act; rather, terrorists have learned it is much more effective to their cause t...
meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...
keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...
model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "Things Fall Apart". Tragic aspects of the novel are emphasized. Paper uses five so...
ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...
reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...
that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...
In eighteen pages Marilyn Monroe's tragic life and career as a movie star and Hollywood legend are examined. Nine sources are cit...
In five pages this paper examines the transformation of Sonny Bono from entertainer to California congressman in this chronicle of...
In eight pages the tragic crash of Flight 800 is examined in terms of causes and changes in rules and regulations that resulted fr...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....