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very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
(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...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
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...
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 ...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
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 five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
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 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
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...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...