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Write a brief posting (250 – 350 words) in which you discuss one difference and one similarity in the treatment of religion in the play Raja Edepus from Indonesia and Kutiyattam

Writing a discussion about plays and articles — 250-350 words Consider the videos and articles you have just digested. Each culture has distinct characteristics, and yet there are similarities as well. Write a brief posting (250 – 350 words) in which you discuss one difference and one similarity in the treatment of religion in the […]

How does isolation contribute to ideas of empathy and compassion in the play?

Emotion in the Ancient Greek World Journal Entry about (Philoctetes by Sophocles): Empathy and Compassion Use the following questions to guide your journal entry. Don’t answer every question they are just meant as prompts and guides, and perhaps you’ll have a lot to say about only one or two. Whichever way you approach it, just […]

Does confinement have a positive, negative, or combination of effects on the mental state of Antigone and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

Directions for Essay 2: Background: “Antigone” was written by the male playwright, Sophocles, around 440 BC, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by the female social reformer and author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, more than a millennium later. Despite these great differences, Sophocles and Gilman compose powerful stories with plots focusing on a female character. According […]

What if you were chosen to go on an expedition to inhabit the world and time period of any of the books studied in class?

The final creative essay is a paper on you and your relationship with any of the books, (The Odyssey, transl. by Emily Wilson, Homer, Oedipus the King, trans. Bernard Knox, Author: Sophocles, Simon and Schuster. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Translated by W S Mewin. Tartuffe by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur). characters and […]