YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Tragic Hero in Electra by Euripides
Essays 241 - 270
In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
about Jasons desertion is the fact that Medea compromised her own existence as a means by which to save his life and is reciprocat...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...
and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...
before establishing their own enclave in the Cithaeron wilderness. Young King Pentheus vows to keep his empire intact and dedicat...
"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
an end to these violent episodes? One of the most logical deductions is that of the new-fangled child rearing practices tha...
decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...
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...
world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...
Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...
over Germany. Meanwhile, the United States, who possessed the only natural deposits of helium became more and more suspicious. As ...
In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...
have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...
had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...
of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...
out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...
in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...
charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...