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

many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...

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...

Huaguxi Opera, also known as "Flower Drum" opera was first seen in Chinas Hunan province, with the first mention of it in 1695 (Ch...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

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

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

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

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

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

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

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

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 ...

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

Greeks it had negative connotations, but also neutral and even positive ones (The early Greek world, 2006). One leader from this...

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

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

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. ...

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...

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

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

considers the times, the Dark Ages, brutality was a common thing. The Hebrew leaders, Abraham, Joseph and Moses are well known to...

one of the differences between classical and modern rhetoric. The only way to understand what it means to express oneself persuasi...

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

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

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

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...