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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...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...