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

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

This paper contrasts and compares these female characters and their life experiences described by William Kennedy in Ironweed in t...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

those ruled by determinism. Having grasped the meaning behind Oedipus the King and Othello, it can easily be argued that Oedipus ...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...

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

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

it was smiling in my face, Have pluckd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...

This paper contrasts and compares how relationships and love are thematically represented in Robert Browning's poem and William Sh...

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