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This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...
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 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 twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...
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...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
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...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...
This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...