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    Greek play and a fairly modern American novella together‚ but I believe students may learn from contrasting these two works. Antigone by Sophocles and The Pearl by John Steinbeck offer two very different portrayals of women. Antigone and Juana are both female main characters. However‚ these two women deal with their respective cultural gender roles very differently. Antigone is strong and brave in the face of danger. When her brother is dishonored in death‚ she knows she must give him a proper burial

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    types of literature. Where there is a character that is figuratively blind compared to others around them. One example is in “Antigone” written by Sophocles. In the story‚ Antigone‚ there are two distinct characters that are blind Antigone and Creon. Antigone was sent to death by Creon because she tried to give her brother a proper funeral when Creon said not to. In jail Antigone said she had no other choice but to kill herself and so she did. She was blind to the fact that other people would come to

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    Though they seem like complete opposites‚ Creon and Antigone are actually alike. Sometimes when people are too much alike they seem to clash‚ just like Antigone and Creon do. They are both characters that think greatly of obedience‚ yet neither subordinate themselves concocting contradiction. Sophocles contradicted himself to develop stubbornness and manipulation in his characters‚ creating suspenseful plays. Sophocles wrote many plays‚ and each one has it’s own set of irony creating themes of contradiction

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    In order to understand how Bree Newsome echoes Antigone‚ one must first compare who they are vaguely. Both Bree and Antigone are of the same gender and attempt to prove women power. Women are not often portrayed as strong‚ but delicate. The time period that Antigone was written women were supposed to obey all rules. Antigone was not the woman that followed the law. On the other hand‚ Bree Newsome was a woman and colored too. As quoted by Nonprofit Quarterly writer Shafaq Hasan “‘It was decided

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    William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is very similar to Sophocles’ “Antigone” but they have key differences. The Parados in Antigone is entirely revolved around the dominance of man and contains many metaphors. He writes “...and his blunt yoke has broken The sultry shoulders of a mountain bull” (Parados 11-12). It’s saying that a bull is a tough animal but a man is tougher. Act II of Hamlet says that a man is very angelic in what he does. It reads “In form and moving how express and admirable! In action

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    Antigone‚ like Kant‚ is governed by a philosophy of duty‚ but one that is very different from Kant’s. Antigone’s duty is to the gods. Unlike Kant who follows a sort of subjective moral law‚ Antigone’s moral law is far less arbitrary. She is obligated to uphold her family duties regardless of the circumstances. I believe this is what separates Antigone from both Mill and Kant‚ as well as Smith. Her actions are independent of

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    The supernatural characteristics within The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Hebrew Bible represent contrasting definitions. In The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ it portrays a supernatural type of world where every character that it lists holds a certain role in the events that occur so therefore these characters are gods and goddesses in their own respects. As for The Hebrew Bible‚ characters are mortal and the reason of events occur due to the single force that is the creator of all things in the living world‚ God

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    Although written by different authors‚ the plays Hamlet and Antigone share similar plots and outcomes. This is because they both contain what are considered essential qualities of tragedy. Both Hamlet and Antigone explore tragedy through the lives and interaction of many characters. Among the characters in both stories‚ the most tragic is Hamlet. Even before the starting point of the story‚ we come to find out that Hamlet has already suffered a major tragedy in his life: his father dying. In addition

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    Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh The Odyssey is both the second story in a two-book trilogy written by Homer some time in 700B.C. and an incredible story of an epic journey filled with sorrow‚ temptation‚ and a hero journeying home. Similarly to Homer’s Odyssey‚ The Epic of Gilgamesh(which was written by an unknown author) is also a story involving gods‚ goddesses‚ temptation‚ and a journey to and from Gilgamesh’s home. These two day old stories share many similarities‚ such as the strings of temptation

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    Oxford University in late 1870s on Principles of Political Obligation. And the definition of joining these two words according to Green was: “to discover the true ground or justification for obedience to law”. Sophocles lifted this problem in his Antigone play‚ performed around 440 BCE‚ and Plato’s Crito recounts Socrates’ philosophical response to the

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