Creon and Antigone‚ The Advancement Of A Tragic Hero In the ancient play Antigone by Sophocles‚ Creon plays a major role as the King of Thebes. Antigone his niece also plays an important role‚ as her conflicting views with Creon led to a disaster‚ making Creon the tragic hero. The tragic hero King Creon created a law he thought would be good for Thebes; however‚ Antigone‚ who disobeyed the law caused Creon’s anger to enlarge. The outcome of Creon’s actions ended tragically‚ which is the reason
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The way humans express themselves is through strong emotion that determines our personalities and how others perceive us. In Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ a schoolteacher by the name of Bertram Cates is accused of breaking the law by teaching evolution in a classroom. The defendant‚ Henry Drummond stands up for Cates in the famous Monkey Trial. By expressing his humor‚ persistence‚ and sarcasm‚ Drummond helps others learn about evolution and its contribution to society‚ even
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The Ovidian opinion of human nature is that humans will always do something wrong. When this wrong-doing offends one or more of the gods‚ the punishment typically results in negative changes in the person’s life‚ and often their ruin or death. In the myths Ovid presents in his Metamorphoses‚ the wrong-doing is brought about in one of three ways. The first of these ways is by an act of the gods‚ seen in the myths of Io and Tiresias. The second way is through bad luck‚ as we see in the myth of Actaeon
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Many mythological beings share similarities with modern characters in literature. Prometheus is no exception. Katniss is very much like Prometheus in many ways. One such similarity is that both of these characters are related to fire. Prometheus steals fire from Zeus to give to the humans on earth to help them survive and Katniss is shown as being the “girl on fire”. The fire for Prometheus is showing that he is a kind person who will do whatever it takes to help others. Katniss being depicted as
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Haemon should have been direct “Father‚ the gods instill good sense in men” (776) Haemon states when he is pleading with his father for his fiance’s release. Trying to make Creon understand that what he is doing is not good in the slightest‚ but is in fact very mean spirited. He later states “The people here in Thebes all say the same— they deny she is.” (834) even the very people he rules believe his judgement is wrong and that Antigone is innocent and was doing well by the gods. Because
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For thousands of years‚ women have consistently been degraded and perceived as less than equals. Although women make up half of the population‚ their treatment has been degrading‚ belittling‚ and simply unjust. In Antigone and Things Fall Apart‚ a Greek play by Sophocles and a novel by Chinua Achebe‚ respectively‚ the discussion of women in their individual societies goes to show the fact that they have been and continue to be consistently oppressed‚ despite the significant time and culture difference
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I held my breath as I held the bowstring‚ exhaling‚ I released my nocked arrow and struck the target right in the bullseye. Never in all my Ranger training had I hit that bullseye. I never would have if I never had Sylvanas Windrunner. Sylvanas was a positive influence in my life because she taught me how to be a good marksman‚ to never back down in times of oppression‚ and to accept my fate when it comes. One of Sylvanas’ most memorable lines she ever told me was “In time‚ death claims us all
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Charles Darnay’s return to France is an example of fulfilling his fate‚ he’s acting as a representative of the St. Evrémondes and when he arrives in France‚ he’ll be considered an aristocrat and treated as such. Darnay renounces his family title and property‚ as he tells his uncle years before the revolution‚ that they have been “reaping the fruits of wrong” (94). Another reason why he does this is because he feels that he is “bound to a system that is frightful…responsible for it‚ but powerless
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1. urchin‚ 193- a mischievous boy‚ rascal The street urchin ran about in the streets careless and happy and free of worries. 2. bourgeois‚ 195- peasants‚ middle classed citizen The 18-century French population consists of mostly peasants and bourgeois. 3. marquisates‚ 195- a rank of a marquis The marquises can be identified when they wear their marquisates. 4. chagrin‚ 201- feeling of being vexed‚ humiliated or disappointed Marius did not feel chagrin when he was told he was going to meet
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In most of The Epic Poem of Gilgamesh‚ the twelfth tablet does not exist in most of the epic. This section is not included in some translations and versions. The authors of this epic poem added this tablet to this poem‚ but the reason why is still not found. It does not keep up a correspondence with the rest of the poem and this tablet also disagrees with some events that are a main focus. In The Epic Poem of Gilgamesh Tablet XII‚ Gilgamesh drops a stick through a small hole in the floor of the
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