1. Alcestis
In many situations individuals have sacrificed their lives for their values or what they think is most important in life. ... (Euripides, 16) The main theme of the story is grounded on the fact that individuals have to sacrifice important things in order to achieve or save primary important things. ... The critic and writer, Conacher highlights the "virtue of hospitality," instead of the virtue of self-sacrificing love. ... His plays contain, hidden below the popular surface, an appeal to men to stop deceiving themselves about the benevolence of their institutions really involve (V...
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- Grade Level: High School