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In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
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 king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
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 ...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
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 presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...
This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...
In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
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 the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
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...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...