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"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
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. ...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...
In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...
In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...
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 ...
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...
In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....
not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...