B. This is an external conflict because he struggles with the outside world in trying to find where his father is. Telemachus struggles with other characters along his journey.…
Element Definintion ACT in the play Exposition: What you need to know. Background information is presented, main characters are introduced, and the conflict is established. ACT 1 First 2 scenes Rising action: The conflicts and challenges encountered by the characters. How they respond keeps the story moving forward. ACT 2, 3rd scene - Act 3, 3rd scene Climax: The turning point in the conflict.…
Odysseus revolts against them due to the trouble Penelope faced all these years . Odysseus forewarns the…
With Odysseus’s departure twenty years prior, Ithaca has descended into chaos, by a swarm of suitors, who plague the palace, and pursue Odysseus’s wife and queen, Penelope. Odysseus father, Laertes, and Penelope, his wife and queen, are the two individuals who truly test him— he returns the favour—, as personifications of Ithaca, they act as stepping stones in his reinstitution as head of his household and kingdom.…
2. The action of the play begins immediately with a conflict between Antigone and Ismene. What is the cause the cause of the conflict?…
In conclusion, Greece’s life was impacted by an intense fight between the two city-states, leaving a big mark in history. All just because of Athens and Sparta’s different ways of teaching, forms of government, and the treatment of women, can affect Greece entirely. Wow! It’s surprising that jealousy can rise up between two city-states, and start a huge battle. Although, was it really worth it? This war only led to having them more open to attack to other cities, and lots of citizens ended up dying or being severely injured. The city-states lost everything, and was almost completely wiped off the…
Euripides’ play starts by introducing us to one the two main characters: Pentheus, king of Thebes, whose characteristics can be immediately noticed, like his rationality and his will to enforce law and order in his city; thinking that this will help his people prosper and his kingdom…
Throughout the entirety of Shakespeare’s “Othello”, there are many scenes of conflict between the characters and Shakespeare presents these conflicts in a number of different ways. The most notable conflicts are between the main characters: Othello, Iago and Desdemona, among others like Roderigo, Cassio, Brabantio, Emilia and Bianca.…
A strong example of how conflict is presented throughout the scene would be foreshadowing. Shakespeare uses foreshadowing to let the audience know what is going to happen in upcoming scenes. This is shown when Benvolio says “we talk here in the public haunt of men”. The word ‘haunt’ foreshadows death. However the term ‘haunt’ instantly makes the audience think of ghosts and haunting. The quotation itself foreshadows the death of a character later on in the scene. Another example of foreshadowing would be when Romeo says “This but begins the woe others must end”. The use of the word ‘woe’ shows Romeo’s misfortune and misery. When he says ‘others must end’, it foreshadows more death later on the scene. The use of foreshadowing death many times in the scene will leave the audience astonished but will hint at scenes to come.…
In Ithaca, the suitors are looking to marry Penelope, Telemachus’ mother. Penelope’s husband, Odysseus, has not been found after the Trojan War, and Athena reminds Telemachus about his father. While Odysseus and Athena are planning, the suitors argue about who is the special one to marry Penelope. The suitors also threaten Telemachus by telling him to exile her mother from his house or make his mom marry one of them. Odysseus’s son decides to set out on sea and find people, who can lead him to Odysseus. There is one obstacle left which is to persuade the suitors about his compromise. The next day, the suitors keep on arguing until Telemachus becomes tired of all the appeals and arguments from them, and he decides to assemble them. Telemachus has Mentor by his side, but he is a disguise for Athena. At first, Telemachus stands strong in telling his step by step plan, but he lets his emotions come in the way after the suitors starts disagreeing again. His emotions tells that…
The play begins with the defeat of Polyneices army who has been chased away by Creon who has taken his role in ruling the city of Thebes. The brothers of Antigone son of Oedipus, Polyneice and Eteocles die during this war in maintaining the city of Thebes. Polyneice allied with the other city-states to attack Thebes while Eteocles refused this and the sharing of the throne. Polyneice’s death is the main reason that shows the subordination of women in this play.…
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).…
By the middle of the 5th century B.C. Athens and Sparta, the two most powerful Greek city-states, found themselves on the brink of a full-scale war. According to Thucydides, at the beginning of the war both Athens and Sparta were at the pick of their might and flourishing and could trade and cooperate to each other’s benefit; instead, they got involved into an armed confrontation, in which the rest of the Greek cities participated, on one side or on the other.…
During the Peloponnesian War, Athens was struck by the plague, which caused widespread chaos and confusion. The…
* The suitors all courted Penelope while Odysseus was gone and turned their home into total chaos. Telemachus tried to help his mother by gaining control over the suitors but failed.…