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Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...

This 3 page paper gives a example for verbal, situational, and character types of irony. This paper includes three instances in th...

their histories are defined and how their interactions take place. The play also enhanced my understanding of how physical elemen...

The use of irony by Burgess in his novel is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages and includes the impact of dramatic a...

In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

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little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

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...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

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...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...