one shines brighter. In the Greek tragedy Antigone‚ a play written by the brilliant Sophocles countless years ago‚ people believed that the only way to reach the underworld was by receiving a proper burial. Antigone‚ the prideful protagonist‚ had her brother‚ Polynices‚ killed at war. King Creon of Thebes‚ the audacious and selfish antagonist‚ sternly declared that whoever buried the traitor‚ Polynices‚ was to be put to death at once‚ but that did not stop Antigone to do what she thinks is morally correct
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tragedy just took over the city Thebes. There is a plague amongst the city. By this time now Oedipus is the king because his father has died. He wants to know why the city is dying and being that everyone is asking him to end it he needs answers. Oedipus sent Creon‚ his brother-in-law and fellow ruler to the Delphic oracle to find out how to stop the plague. Creon returns to tell Oedipus that the god Apollo knows who murdered Lauis. Oedipus gets angry and tells the Chorus that he will end the plague
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In the story “The Antigone” many characters must decide to go with what the people of Thebes want or they attempt to go with what they believe is right.Of the many characters in this story only two or three will be touched upon and what their morals and beliefs will be addressed.These two‚ or possibly three‚ characters will be Antigone‚ Creon‚ and maybe Haemon. Antigone addresses her beliefs and moral right off the bat. She is a strong and independent woman who is the daughter of Oedipus and the
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experience that he has‚” (Graves 14). The audience also expresses pity towards him because Antigone is a murderer and they can understand why Creon is so upset. Creon is a very authoritative person and demands control of others. When talking to the Chorus‚ “Creon does not ask them to agree with the decree‚ but he rather demands that they follow it‚” (Grantz 18). Creon expects loyalty from others. It is apparent that Creon is very
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The main objective of the present work is to characterize some pigments from the tomb of Nakht-Djehuty (TT189)‚ time of Ramesses II (c.1279–1212 BC)‚ El-Assasif district‚ El-Qurna necropolis‚ Luxor (ancient Thebes)‚ Upper Egypt. The characterization of the examined wall paintings was carried out by means of optical microscopy (OM)‚ scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray detector (EDS)‚ X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD)‚ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT–IR)
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style: Sophocles demonstrates great insight into human suffering. He assumes a pontifical role in an attempt to present a moral lesson to the general masses. 2. Cite a sample passage that exemplifies the style (provide page number): Chorus: “People of Thebes‚ my countrymen‚ look on Oedipus. He solved the famous riddle with his brilliance‚ he rose to power‚ a man beyond all power. Who could behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him? Now as we keep our
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Genazzano FCJ College Year 12 Literature Text: Lysistrata Aristophanes The Play Lysistrata was produced early in 411 BC. It is the third and last of Aristophanes’ ‘peace plays’. It is a dream about peace‚ conceived at a time when Athens was going through the most desperate crisis she had known since the Persian War. All that most Athenians could see was that the war was going on as usual and there seemed to be no way out of it other than the unthinkable option of capitulation. But comedy specializes
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the king of Thebes‚ is seen as the tragic hero on this particular tragedy. Now‚ fast-forwarding through time to 1949 Arthur Miller wrote Death of A Salesman. This play has a character named Willy Lowman and he certainly follows the definition of a tragedy‚ but he doesn’t have sudden realization like Oedipus in Oedipus the King. So‚ Oedipus is a tragic hero‚ while Willy Loman simply isn’t even though the story can be considered a tragedy. First‚ Oedipus is the king of Thebes and in the beginning
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When dwelling upon the main developments of the theatre‚ one turns to look at the origins of its birth‚ therefore focusing upon the Ancient Greeks. A lot of the theatre in which is established today comes from the activities of Greek Worship. The Greeks worshipped their Gods‚ including ‘the worship of Dionysus; the God of fertility and wine.’ (Gascoinge; History of Theatre‚ 2001 ongoing.) The Greeks worshipped their Gods through the use of sculpting‚ painting‚ music and literature‚ alongside this
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actions. In Hamlet‚ Hamlet ’s actions are‚ for the most part‚ ignored because he hides the body and they cannot pin the murder of Polonius on him. In Antigone‚ Antigone is witnessed burying the body and when confronted about it she admits fully to the burial. This just shows little differences in the actions of the two main characters. Another theme present in both books is tyrrany. In Antigone‚ Creon is in many ways a sympathetic character‚ but he abuses his power subtly - mainly by decreeing man ’s
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