YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature Sophocles Antigone and Shakespeares Hamlet
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has credible reasons for his melancholy state, as his father has been dead only two months, and his mother has already remarried. ...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
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...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
throughout much of the story. His underhanded lies and involvement leads Claudio to believe that Hero is not faithful, and all but...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
This five page paper interprets Claudius' question to Hamlet as to what has become of Polinus' body, the question preseted in Act ...
In five pages this character analysis of Claudius focuses on ethical values with a contrast and comparison between Prince Hamlet a...
an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...
this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
of various health care institutions in a number of states. It is also the trade name of a variety of insurance companies (Anthem, ...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the current literature on choosing a college major. This paper includes reason for choice o...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...