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In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...
In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...
evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....
In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...
will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...
you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
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...
First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...
In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...
men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...
of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...
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 ...
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...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
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...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...