Essays 121 - 150
(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...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
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 ...
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,...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
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...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
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...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
In six pages this paper examines how the individual is controlled by this state in an analysis of Antigone by Sophocles, Narrative...
In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
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...