always right and everything had to go in the way he wanted to: “I am King of Thebes‚ Antigone. I have a duty as a monarch.” Moreover‚ he also believed that his decision was right in the punishing of Antigone‚ despite that fact that she was engaged to Haemon‚ Creon’s son. “A broken law is a broken law‚ and lawbreakers must be punished. Antigone will be no exception.” In this case‚ his sense of pride was the tragic flaw that led him to his downfall. At the end‚ Creon finally realized that his pride
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appears. After reading the story‚ you can easily pick out the dominant characters. The characters that would take on the label of “powerful people” would be Creon and most of the characters that we meet within the story. Although Ismene‚ Antigone‚ Haemon‚ etc are below Creon‚ they all belong to the “upper class” society. Powerful people are powerful because of their families‚ wealth‚ skills‚ and even personality. The same attributes contribute to the reasoning as to why the powerless are in fact powerless
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As Creon and his men race to correct their error‚ Annie enters through the plantation. She is dressed in white‚ holding a veil in her hands. Surrounding her is a chorus of dead Confederate soldiers‚ two of which are her brothers Earl and Paul. “Look at me‚” she says‚ “men of my fatherland/setting out on that last road” (102). She speaks directly to the dead‚ and the dead answer. The chorus taunts her impending death‚ for which Annie takes offense‚ asking that the spirits wait until she is dead
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Blurred Lines “I turn me I know not where For my plans ill-sped‚ And a doom that is heavy to bear Is come down on my head.” Creon Both sacred and secular laws are broken as boundaries are crossed by the feuding family members in Sophocles’s play‚ Antigone. Rebelling against his gods and people‚ Creon‚ who took the throne after his nephews died in their own civil war‚ fights for total control. Meanwhile‚ Antigone defies the state of Thebes so as “not [to] prove disloyal” to the oldest Greek laws
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CARTE MENU‚ viewed 17 August 2010‚ . Crompton‚ JL 1997‚ Motives of visitors attending festival events‚ Elsevier Science‚ Canada. Gorodesky‚ R‚ Carron E ‚ Restaurant Marketing: Strategic Positioning of a Restaurant – Pricing‚ viewed 17 August 2010‚ . Haemon. O 2008‚ Handbook of Hospitality Marketing Management‚ Butterworth Heinemann‚ United States. Hsu‚ C‚ Killion‚ L‚ Brown‚ G‚ Gross‚ MJ‚ & Huang‚ S 2008‚ Tourism Marketing: An Asia-Pacific Perspective‚ 1st edn‚ John Wiley & Sons‚ Queensland. Hutchens
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Heroes come in many forms. Some heroes are immense in size and strength like Hercules. Some are shunned upon like Harriet Tubman. Some are deaf and blind like Helen Keller. Some are Jewish victims of the Holocaust like Anne Frank. Others stand up for what they believe is right like Rosa Parks. Certain characteristics set them apart from the rest. Antigone is a tragic hero in the Greek play called Antigone. A tragic hero is character who is dignified and superior and whose downfall is caused by a
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thought process. This interaction causes the king to believe Ismene is mad and wants to commit them both as criminals (Lines 526‚ 530-531). Ismeme pleads with Creon‚ showing her inferiority‚ to save her sisters life. She even brings up the fact that Haemon‚ Creons son‚ and Antigone were supposed to get married. Ismenes actions make her seem desperate and give Creon the opportunity to make her look guilty to the
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In the play Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles‚ foil and parallel characters are very common. The foil character in a story is the character who is the exact opposite of the main character‚ or in other word‚ the parallel character‚ and therefor serves to magnify certain characteristics of the main character. Such characters for example could be Ismene‚ the foil character and Antigone‚ the parallel character. Ismene is cowardly and prefer to follow the rules‚ while Antigone is much more
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Antigone Antigone deals with the conflicts arising from three demands made upon the human psyche: the demands of religion (Zeus); the demands of the state (Thebes); and the demands of human instincts (Aphrodite). Characters like Antigone represent how firm beliefs and a strong sense of religion can impact an individual’s thoughts and actions. When Antigone was put before King Creon to defend herself she says to him “But all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded
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Antigone. The character of Dimmesdale and Creon both share some feeling of guilt on what they did. Dimmesdale is guilty of commiting adultery and he doesn’t want to reveal it while Creon is guilty of his decisions and on what he had done to his son‚ Haemon and his wife‚ Eurydice which was their death. This tells the reader that The Scarlet Letter can be connected from the other text that has been read before and or based on their own
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