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In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...
This 5 page paper focuses on the lead characters Antigone and Willy Loman then branches out to ancillary characters to establish h...
In six pages the ways in which Antigone handles with what is an impossible choice and how it serves in developing true moral chara...
will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
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 ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
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...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...