SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Antigone Character Analysis

Essays 211 - 240

Greek Women and Women Today: A Discussion

Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...

4 Essays, Antigone, Bible Verses

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(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 Tragic Hero Antigone?

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

Greco Roman Literary Works and Heroism

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers

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...

Medea and Antigone as Representatives of Fifth Century BCE Women

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

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...

Societal Struggles of Women

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Sophocles, Shakespeare and Actions That Speak Louder than Words

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

Literature, Society, and the Individual

taken into account. In reading works written a long time ago, such as Antigone as noted above, or Platos Republic as another examp...

Mythology of Greece and the Roles of Antigone and Medea

This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

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...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

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...

Desdemona and Antigone

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

Power According to Antigone and Oedipus

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

Teiresias' Importance in Antigone and Oedipus

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

Feminist Heroines Antigone in Sophocles' Play of the Same Name and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

Antigone of Sophocles and Nora of Ibsen

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

Righteousness in Antigone by Sophocles

In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...

Creon and Joe Turner Compared

In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...

Morality According to Plato and Sophocles

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

Comparing Antigone, Medea, and Nora Helmer

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...

Plato and Sophocles

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

Women in Ancient Literature and Now

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...