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Proper Burial City State
924 wordsIn Ancient Greece, after 800 bc. , new ideas came to the forefront concerning the governing of society. These ideas led to a more organized leadership and a government whose decisions were primarily based on majority rule. This system took the form of city-states, large self-governing towns. These city-states were founded on principals of "freedom, optimism, secularism, rationalism, [and] the glorification of body and mind." Accompanying these principals was an obligation of fierce loyalty to th...
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Dante Inferno Young Boy
1,273 wordsWhat are we doing here is a question that simply does not have a right or wrong answer. It's a question that is thought about often by many. From person to person the answer to this philosophical question differs. The following paragraphs will enlighten you on the views of Swift, Twain, Beckett, Sartre, Sophecles, Dante, Voltaire, and myself. By writing Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift implies that people were put on this earth to experience life and see it through different perspectives His v...
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Reader Feels Final Decision
717 wordsWhen a play-write creates a tragedy, two of the main aspects that need to be included are feelings of pity and fear on the readers part. In Sophocles Antigone, the presence of fear and pity are very obvious. The people who suffer cause the reader to feel the need to comfort them. It is an example of a very strong tragedy. The main idea or theme behind Antigone, is that one should listen to other peoples opinions or advice and consider it before making any final decision or actions. This theme ca...
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Bury Her Brother Concept Of Fate
444 wordsSophocles Antigone concerns the struggle of a young woman battling for justice at all costs. The idea of fate is a staple throughout Greek Literature, and Sophocles uses the concept of fate to dictate the actions of a character. Antigone's destiny is one of predestination, a mission of the gods which begins with her ill-fated family and Creons decree, and ends with her own actions. The Ancient Greek plays contain a concept of fate that dictates every action taken by, and every word spoken by a c...
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Physical Science Working Class
1,089 wordsWhen George M. Trevelyan states, "that the analogy of physical sciences has misled many historians, " he is talking about the comparison between physical sciences and the reality that history can never really be a true science. Physical science is inevitable and can be proven through data and experiment. There is nothing on the planet that can prove history through data and experiment. When physical science occurs, there is a cause and affect that concurs with the meaning of the happening and wh...
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Heroic Figure Heroic Code
775 words" Achilles vs. Antigone" The word heroic means surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale; relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity; having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; impressive in size or scope; showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort. In Homers The Iliad Achilles the heroic figure, and also in Sophocles Antigone Antigone is the heroic figure. Arte is an Ancient Greek word that describes the...
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Power Go To His Head Leads To His Destruction Pride
978 wordsPride is a quality that all people possess in one way or another. Some people take pride in their appearance, worldly possessions, or position in society. The story of Antigone written by Sophocles has two characters who have a tragic flaw of pride. I will show how Creon's pride of power leads to his destruction, and how Antigone's pride makes her an honorable character who should be treated as a hero. Creon is a man who has just become the king of Thebes and has a flaw of having too much pride....
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Supposed To Bury Body
414 wordsA feeling of despair lingers in the air causing everyone to walk around in a daze with a far away look on their faces. The murky colors of the wall only reflect the sea of different dark colored clothing on the people in the parlor. Family members and those close to the deceased try their hardest to look brave and strong for the sake of the others who are not able to. Those who are not close to the loved one hold up the others on their shoulders. They try their hardest to not break down like the...
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Persuasive Gotham City Cemetery
499 wordsConstructing a cemetery is very useful for many reasons. People in Gotham City should construct a cemetery instead of a monument because people will use it, people will visit it and people will remember it. People in Gotham City need a cemetery than a monument. A cemetery will bring people happier. Many people should prefer to construct a cemetery. A monument will not be helpful for the people in that city. First, constructing a cemetery will be useful for many people in Gotham City because peop...
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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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Antigone And Ismene Ismene Is Loyal Brother
639 wordsTwo sisters destined to love each other, but conflict interrupts their paths. The firsts journey is one of self-exploration and discovery; the others of continual oppression and hardships. Ismene and Antigone are the troubled sisters whose decisions take them on different courses, but these same choices also brought them together. Even though their actions show differently, Antigone and Ismene's morals and philosophies show that they are true sisters at heart. Antigone shows the attribute of bol...
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Ancient Greece Ancient Greek
1,031 wordsIn looking at the first few exchanges between Ismene and Antigone by Sophocles, it is greatly apparent that there are plenty of social issues surrounding women from ancient Greece. In looking at the contextual background of the playwright, the representation of the women within the play and at the imagined response of a contemporary and ancient audience; we can see that this play raises many gender and socially related issues. Looking briefly at the contextual element to the play in terms of the...
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Themes Are Shown Individuals Role In Society Influence
1,005 wordsAn individuals role in society can vary with the number themes the characters exhibit. When there are signs of fate, cruelties, weaknesses, and desires for justice and catharsis the role of an individual becomes more complicated. In Antigone, most of those themes are shown thus a single persons influence or role on society is very small and complicated to attain. However in The Lottery the society has most of the control and there is not many signs of those characteristics so the role of a perso...
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Bhagavad Gita N P
1,206 wordsKhrishnas Teachings Khrishnas teachings in the Bhagavad-Gita are very interesting. One of the most amazing scenes describes the battlefield and the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. I consider this scene to be merely a symbolic interpretation. First of all, the battlefield can be compared with the battlefield of mind. The actual story describes the events taking place on Kurukshetra battlefield. This is the scene of spiritual awakening taking place in the edge between death and life, death an...
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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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Burying Her Brother Divine Law
945 wordsDivine Law vs. Human Law Sophocles famous play, Antigone, can be perceived as a conflict between individual conscience and state policy. Yet the issue of the play goes beyond that conflict and touches the universal conditions of suffering, religion, and loyalty. Through Antigone's character which represents the spheres of family loyalty, divine law, and human suffering, Sophocles conveys the idea that a law of man that violates religious law is not a law at all. He expresses this idea by having ...
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Creon Is Making Antigone And Creon One
981 words? If they only Knew? When two people have an uncompromisable difference in opinion they are forced to become enemies. Sophocles illustrates this in the tragedy Antigone through the main characters, Antigone and Creon. Antigone, King Oedipus? s daughter, has come back to Thebes after king Creon has put her two brothers Polyneices and Etocles to death. After being killed only one brother is given a proper burial, the other one, Polynecius, is left out to be? chewed up by birds and dogs (page 168 l...
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Bury Her Brother Antigone
336 wordsIn everyday life, the outcome of your day can be altered by the simplest or most complicating choices. Antigone's decision to bury her brother, Creon's choice to sentence Antigone to death, and again Antigone's choice to end her life were important decisions that other characters based their conclusions around. The choices of the characters in Antigone change the outcome of the play and the lives or choices of other characters. The famous first decision of Antigone was to bury her brother Polyne...
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Herman Melville Moby Dick
1,693 wordsThere is a symbolic element in every great literary work, which makes the authors message more tangible and real to his readers. In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, one such element is the idea of the counterpane, or tapestry, of humanity, that is woven throughout the story as a symbol of the worlds multiculturalism. Melville develops this symbolism on at least three levels, proving that the world is indeed a counterpane of diverse cultures, races, and environments, in which we, while supremely uniq...
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Divine Will Is More Powerful Religious Beliefs Creon
607 words2. In many ways, the plot of Antigone had to do with power. Which of these do you think Sophocles favors most strong in Antigone? POWER TRIPS In the play, Antigone, written by Sophocles, Antigone and Creon battle a philosophical war dealing with moral versus political power. In essence, Sophocles demonstrates that divine will is more powerful than that of the state. Antigone's side of the conflict is a more heavenly approach as opposed to the political venue taken by Creon. Antigone feels that C...
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