YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Antigone by Jean Anouilh
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started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...
women with price tags of more than $100 a pair (Davies 172). They focus upon people, scenes, and situations from around the world...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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 ...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
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...
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...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
(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...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
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...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
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 ...
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...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...