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and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

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

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

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

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...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

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

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

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...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

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

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

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