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little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

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...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

what they want, remains universal and could easily fit into a contemporary drama or comedy. Lysistrata tells her fellows that "We ...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

House shocked audiences when it first appeared with its depiction of a woman who refused to live by societys "rules." This paper d...