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see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

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

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

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...

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 ...

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

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

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...

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

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

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...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

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...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

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

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...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

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 ...

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

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...