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    Section I: Essay Questions: A.1) Prompt: How are Antigone‚ Ismene and Eurydice portrayed in the play? How is this similar or different from how they are observed by the minor characters? Although ancient Greece was a male-dominate society‚ Sophocles’ work Antigone‚ portrays women as being strong and capable of making wise decisions. In this tragedy‚ Sophocles uses three main characters who are women to represent different models of female behavior. Traditionally women are characterized as weak

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    Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy are dynamic characters in the story Pride and Prejudice‚ they were made for each other. Elizabeth Bennet was a supportive person to her sisters and also to her friends. Elizabeth and her sister Jane Bennet were each other voice

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    DOMINIQUE FRANCON One of the most dynamic characters of The Fountainhead is Dominique Francon‚ the daughter of Guy Francon and eventual wife to Howard Roark. Rand created Dominique for the purpose to exaggerate the imbalance between men of collectivist and individualist ideals. In the beginning of the novel‚ Dominique is a lost soul - desiring something unknown‚ ambiguous with her emotions‚ and contempt with life - which leads her to experience men from both views. With Peter Keating and Gail

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    testimony‚ in which she says‚ “I have never known a cross word from him in my life‚ and I have known him ever since he was four years old” (Austen 281). Mr. Darcy‚ from the age of four‚ has displayed good morality‚ ruling out the point of his changing character‚ demonstrating how his morality was confused in his poor first

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    Question 2: When it comes to Iago‚ there is a great difference between how the characters perceive him‚ how we perceive him and how he perceives himself. Using evidence‚ discuss the three differing viewpoints and explore Iago’s duplicitous nature. Is he a flat or dynamic character? Humans are born with a natural capacity for good and evil. As an individual develops‚ he or she is taught to distinguish between the two in order to strengthen a sense of right and wrong. Through Shakespeare’s play

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    Presentation Notes Traditional Greek plays * Tragedy * Dramatic composition dealing with somber themes‚ typically of a great person destined through flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force or society‚ to downfall or destruction * All violence to occur off stage and messenger tell you of what has occurred * Process of a tragic hero * A tragic hero is a man of Nobel stature. He is not an ordinary man‚ but a man with outstanding quality and greatness

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    11/5/13 English 111 Antigone Paper Antigone: Individual vs. State The conflict between individual conscious and state law is something mankind has endured since the beginning of history. There have been many individuals that have stood by their beliefs and conscious against government law despite the repercussions. This conflict is one of the main struggles in Antigone‚ the Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. At the center of this tragedy is the battle between an individual’s moral duty and

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    Sammy: A Dynamic Character in John Updike’s "A&P" In John Updike’s "A&P"‚ the main character‚ Sammy‚ becomes the story’s narrator. Sammy is a typical nineteen-year-old man‚ working a boring‚ dead end job as a grocery store cashier in a lower middle class town. His only role models are Stokesie‚ a twenty-two year-old man doing the same job as Sammy‚ trying to support a family‚ and Lengel‚ his manager‚ who most likely some years earlier held the same occupation. The entrance of the beautiful Queenie

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    Antigone by Sophocles is an interesting play that I enjoyed reading. It was something different for me since I don’t ever read plays. After reading the play I thought this story would fit under a feminist approach‚ until I fully began to understand and analyze each character of the play. In this paper I will discuss how the major events of Antigone can be analyzed through the psychological approach point of view. I as well read each critic about Antigone and found some similarity and dissimilarity

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    The Tragic Downfalls of Creon and Antigone in Sophocles’ Antigone The hubris resonating throughout the play‚ ‘Antigone’ is seen in the characters of Creon and Antigone. Their pride causes them to act impulsively‚ resulting in their individual downfalls. In his opening speech‚ Creon makes his motives clear‚ that “no man who is his country’s enemy shall call himself my friend.” This part of his declaration was kept to the letter‚ as he refused burial for his nephew‚ Polynices. However‚ when the situation

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