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an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

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

a man so much that she would do anything for him-- lie, cry, and eventually die. In many ways, Queen Jocasta submits fully...

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

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

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

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

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

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

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

Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...

of in a negative light. On the other hand, Oedipus Rex is also someone who is seemingly trying to help to find the true murderer o...

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

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

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

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

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

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

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

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

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...