Essays 91 - 120
In five pages this paper analyzed the family conflict experienced by father Creon and his son Haemon in Antigone and how it fits w...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....
In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...
In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
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 ...
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...
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...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
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...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
(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...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...