YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Tragic Creon in Antigone by Sophocles
Essays 121 - 150
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....
In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....
In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....
In a paper consisting of five pages the differing gender attitudes that existed in the society of ancient Greece is examined with ...
of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...
First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...
actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...
In this paper that contains 20 pages Aaron Burr is given the respect he has been too long been denied through a thoughtful examina...
"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
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. ...
of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...
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...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
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...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
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...
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...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...