One certain day the rock god Balboa was talking to his daughter Kina about doing her job as the god of insects‚ but she and yelled to her father "I wish you weren’t my father." wouldn’t listen and stormed off. When she was in a quick pace she looks back behind her and sees the huge Jagged Mountain that her father made thousand of years ago. She suddenly trips on a piece of coal and screams "could this day get any better!" she stays in her fast pace and she heard foot steps behind her and whimpered
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Structure is needed for a society to thrive. Without it‚ people would do anything they pleased‚ with little consideration or concern for others. Structure‚ usually in the form of laws created by a person of power‚ is what keeps a group of people together‚ and allows for peaceful order between these individuals. Laws‚ however‚ can sometimes be corrupted by the one that is governing them. Although these laws may go against what is good for the people‚ fear can often times effect the way a population
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In differentiating between the protagonist and the secondary characters in Greek drama‚ four characteristics of a traditional Greek hero should be kept in mind: undying loyalty‚ strong convictions‚ a single character flaw‚ and a lesson learned. In the play‚ Antigone‚ by Sophocles‚ two characters‚ Antigone and Creon‚ have thee of these four. The possession of the fourth quality is what sets one apart as the main character. Even though the title of the play is Antigone‚ the main character-the protagonist-
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Heraclitus said “We can never step into the same river twice‚ for different water is ever flowing” (12). The river which Heraclitus refers to‚ is a metaphor for time. Time continues on regardless of life‚ always changing. Although it may seem impossible to go back in time – impossible to step into the same river – there are times when moments in time seems to repeat themselves throughout history. Ovid refutes this maxim through the use of a common storyline throughout several of his stories. Many
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753 BCE The legendary founding date of Rome. There are two myths about the creation of Rome‚ and they are interconnected and support each other‚ which is very much curious‚ taking in to account that they come from two different sources. Early settlements of the Palatine Hill discovered by archaeologists‚ date back to ca 750 BC‚ that factual date is very close to what the legend tells us about the birthday of Rome - 21 April 753 BC - celebrated in Rome with the festival of Parilia. “According to
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week four journal Reading this story always poses confusion to me‚and running into hurdles by virtue of confusing the relation of one man to another and so did time. But regardless of these difficulties which making me understand the story roughly‚something useful which can not be ignored touched me deeply. In chapter XXV of David’s sorrow‚Absalom‚David’s beautiful son‚who looked handsome from the crown of his head to the soles of his his feet but in fact was wicked and false‚attempting to be the
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Throughout history‚ there have been countless kings and rulers that have shaped government systems and history as a whole. The bad kings and rulers are often remembered as tyrants and unfair dictators. It is a fair assumption that throughout the play Antigone‚ Creon ruled with an “iron fist‚” but undoubtedly over-exercised his powers when dealing with his punishment for Antigone for burying Polyneices’ body. He continually insisted that his law was in accordance with what the gods wanted. His stubbornness
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Creon the Tragic Figure Throughout the play Antigone‚ Creon is portrayed as the king of discipline and pride. Creon’s pride is what makes him the tragic figure of Antigone. Though Antigone takes her life as the result of her sentence from Creon‚ it is not her pride that defines her fate but her unwillingness to accept her fate. Creon‚ King of Thebes‚ suffers his fate of pride. Not by his own demise‚ but his denial of Antigones brother Polynices burial; this caused catastrophic events in Creon’s
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The role of women in Antigone and The Iliad were completely opposite each other. Women during the time period of The Iliad weren’t as independent as the women during the time period of Antigone. Women during the period of The Iliad were portrayed as objects; they were portrayed as not being equal to the role of a man in the household; not even if they were in some form of royalty. In Antigone women had a little bit more independency and a little bit more equality. In The Iliad‚ a woman’s role
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This essay is to discuss the multilayered motives that drive Antigone to action. When I read the play I believe‚ it is a strong sense alligence to her family‚ and pure anger that drives Antigone to make the decision to act against Creons law and bury her brother Polyneices. After loosing her mother to sucided‚ her father and her twin brothers‚ Antigone and her sister Ismene are the last of the Labadcus family (a royal family). The lost of so many loved ones in a short period of time begins to manifests
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