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"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

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...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

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...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

In this paper that contains 20 pages Aaron Burr is given the respect he has been too long been denied through a thoughtful examina...

In 5 pages the concept of tragic hero as defined by Aristotle is examined within th context of the novel by Gustave Flaubert and c...

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

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...

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...

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