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actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...

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

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

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

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

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

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...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

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...

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

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

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...

to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...