YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Enduring Popularity of Antigone
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For example, the City Hall is in Center City, which is the name given to downtown Philadelphia (Shapiro P03). In fact, many people...
manufactured products, firms will reverse engineer the products in order to find ways around the patents, and in some cases, as se...
new chemicals, which means we need more powerful ones, on and on in a continuous cycle of destruction (Carson). The final result o...
and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
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...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
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...
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 ...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...