YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Modern World and the Legacy of Antigone
Essays 211 - 240
In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....
In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...
In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
In five pages this paper analyzed the family conflict experienced by father Creon and his son Haemon in Antigone and how it fits w...
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...
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 how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
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...
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...
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...
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...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
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...
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...
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...