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Business World, Morality, and Gender in Sophocles' Antigone

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

Antigone: Conformity and Rebellion

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

Tragic Masterpiece Antigone by Sophocles

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

Morality According to Plato and Sophocles

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Antigone by Sophocles, Male and Female Power

In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

Ancient Greece and Changing Attitudes Regarding Virtue

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

Sophocles' Antigone, Plato's Protagoras and Socrates' Principles

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

Structure and Themes of Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

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...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

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...

Antigone Legend and Myth

(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

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

The Tragic Hero Antigone?

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

Plato and Sophocles

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

Creon in Oedipus the King and Antigone

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...

Oedipus & Creon as Rulers

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

Character Analysis of Creon from Antigone

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...

Antigone and Haemon: Love, Religion and Politics

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

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

4 Essays, Antigone, Bible Verses

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

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

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

Teiresias' Importance in Antigone and Oedipus

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

Antigone of Sophocles and Nora of Ibsen

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

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

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...

Desdemona and Antigone

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

Greco Roman Literary Works and Heroism

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

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...