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is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

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

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...

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

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

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...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

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...

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...

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

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

(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...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...

This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...

In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

This 5 page paper focuses on the lead characters Antigone and Willy Loman then branches out to ancillary characters to establish h...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

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...

In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....