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Essays 271 - 300
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...
marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...
with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...
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...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...
In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
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 Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
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...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
In five pages the different types of imagery employed within these two texts in terms of sight, hearing, sense, touch, smell, and ...
In ten pages this paper examines Shakespeare's characterizations of Lord and Lady Macbeth regarding how they enable him to masterf...
In five pages a parking lot is described in terms of the emotions evoked by a Christmas shopping season's sights and sounds in an ...
In seventeen pages this research study considers the differences that exist between sight based and phonics reading program with t...
In five pages a person's quest to regain sight is examined within the context of 'To See or Not to See,' an essay by Oliver Sack. ...
disheartenment. Yet to have the ability to love is something that does not escape the young couple, for they do have the capacity...
This essay summarizes the book in 5 pages, and includes a discussion of marketing's 'sacred cows,' and how the process has caused ...
In nine pages this paper discusses how the future is in the sights of the old oil industry giant Shell Oil Company. Thirteen sour...
In nine pages the major political influence and religious impact of minister and evangelist Billy Graham are discussed within the ...
other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...
sight and sound during the first months of life. It is sight that represents to them protection, for they become used to seeing t...