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In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

This paper compares and contrasts Shakespeare's original play with Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of Macbeth. This seven page...

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

In five pages the shared themes and death emphasis of these two notorious literary classics are contrasted and compared. Three so...

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

This 5 page essay examines the character Nancy in the book by William Faulkner. 2 sources....

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

Macbeth was elected King in preference to Duncans own son, who was considered...

In five pages this paper discusses the role of superstition, prophecies, and omens in the plays Julius Caesar and Macbeth by Willi...

of a doting type of love. His feeling for Silvia, however, is quite lustful, with sexual passion almost completely numbing all re...

depression. She always expresses herself in terms of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have fa...

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

as they seem. It is recommended that the student who is writing about this topic consider that Messina is also the center of law,...

would, therefore, perhaps be useful to look at three of Shakespeares play from the point of view of specific political angles, and...