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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...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

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 five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

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...

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

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...

threw furniture and threatened to beat up" his wife or anyone else he felt had gotten in his way (Wall 23). Research has shown t...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...

In two pages this paper contrasts the depiction of man's fall in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Amelia Lanyer and the ninth book of P...

"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...

establishing Mexicans as "people of corn." There are a number of issues associated with corn and its historical influence over th...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

after all, they are completely covered, even if they are pushing the limits The second ironical situation is Sammys resignation. ...