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' P Loved One
1,150 words... the gods celebrating traitors? Inconceivable!' (p 73) Creon speaks of citizens that loyally submitting to their king would follow their kings in good times as well as bad. But his own nephew turned against him and his state, and an audience can understand the problem Creon was faced with as the ruler of the city and can empathize that the decision not to pay the last rites to a traitor is just. By empathizing with this it gives credit to Creon as a ruler, but raises ambiguity about Creon's c...
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Mortals Without Suffering Mortals Without Suffering And Disaster Antigone
534 wordsNothing of magnitude comes into the life of mortals without suffering and disaster. This deeply pessimistic statement by Charles Segal sums up the theme of tragedy in Antigone. This play is truly the example that nothing comes into the life of mortals without suffering and disaster; there are many significant events occurring, none of which stem from prosperity or success. All of the characters are affected by these tragic events, because agony, adversity, and distress are conditions of humanity...
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Lost Love Unconditional Love
1,029 wordsLove and Death in Black Orpheus May 10, 2004 paper no. 4 In fiction or reality being overly ambitious can cause one to yield to the evils of temptations. In Black Orpheus the myth fits into the story because it demonstrates the extremes an individual will endure to regain lost love, and relive the past. In the movie Orpheus and Eurydice both experience a case of "love at first at first sight." They barely know each other but feel that because of Greek Mythology they were destined to love each ot...
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Beginning Of The Play Antigone
1,043 wordsAntigone by Sophocles is one of the most distinguished pieces of theatrical work that reflects upon Greek mythology and culture. Antigone has several themes and circumstantial settings that can be indirectly referred or related to in modern society. Sophocles uses various and strategically placed characters to present his play as well as his themes. The play mainly revolves around Antigone who acts alongside her elder sister, Ismene. Both are daughters of Oedipus and Jocasta who are in the conte...
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Commits Suicide Greek Myths
1,389 wordsGreek Ideas on Gender Roles Throughout history, the roles of women and men have always differed to some degree. In ancient Greece, the traditional roles were clear-cut and defined. Women stayed home to care for children and do housework while men left to work. This system of society was not too far off the hunter gatherer concept where women cared for the house and the men hunted. Intriguingly enough, despite the customary submissive role, women had a more multifaceted role and image in society ...
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Young Man Three Days
1,264 wordsJourneys of the Underworld Throughout time, Myths have been used through civilizations in order to explain the unexplainable. Different cultures describe their difficulties and what their gods did in order to solve these. Because most of the disasters or difficulties were tied together or somehow the same, the myths tend to overlap. More important than the similarities are the differences among the cultures, because all of them beautifully tell their own side of the story. One of the most appare...
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