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Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...

who scorned Bartlebys oddness, comes to allow for the differences that set each person apart from another. Ritter supports this n...

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

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...

part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

in the story when Aeneas has arrived in the realm of Turnus. Turnus was engaged to marry a woman but the womans mother has chosen ...

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

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

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...