SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.) Antigone I. Introduction Antigone is a Greek dramatic play tragedy by Sophocles. Sophocles was born into a wealthy family (his father was an amour manufacturer) and was highly educated. Sophocles’ first artistic triumph was in 468 BC‚ when he took first prize in the Dionysian theatre competition over the reigning master of Athenian drama‚ Aeschylus. Sophocles wrote the three Theban plays‚ a collection that has survived for centuries‚ and for good reason. One of these
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Answers for Chapters 13 & 14: 1) My current barangay is located which is Brgy. San Agustin is located at Hagonoy in the province of Bulacan. Brgy. San Agustin is just one of the barangays that is subsided by flood every time a typhoon hits and whenever there is a high tide. But the problem will not just end there because the flood will stay in our place for a week. Even though flood is all over the place we do not care much of it‚ I think because we are so used to it. We tried a lot of solutions
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Antigone‚ from the play Antigone‚ is like her father Oedipus‚ from the play Oedipus Rex‚ through the two classical values‚ justice and courage. Antigone showed justice by doing what she believed was right. Her brothers body‚ he was killed in war‚ was cast from the city with no rights and without a proper burial‚ and no one was allowed to bury it. Antigone‚ seeing this as an injustice decided to make it right by burying her brother anyway at the expense of herself. This shows justice because to do
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hours each. Sophocles was a Greek tragedian and the playwright of the famous tragedy‚ Antigone‚ which astounded the audience due to the dominant woman tragic hero of Antigone. He incorporated the Chorus‚ a group of elders‚ into this tragedy as all Greek plays did. The Chorus was used to provide wisdom‚ advice‚ and morals directly to the characters‚ and also provide background information to the audience. In Antigone‚ the Chorus uses the literary device of allusion to introduce a different atmosphere
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The family benefits from Lina’s mother’s calmness by not having to worry as much. They were able to stay calm and pack up their belongings. Their mother’s calmness also prevents them from becoming scared. They did what the officers told them instead of rebelling. Yes‚ I consider Lina’s mother breaking the dishes an act of rebellion. She knew what they were going to do with the dishes if she did not break them. She loved her dishes and didn’t want the Nazi’s to use‚ sell‚ or profit from them. In my
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There once were twin brothers‚ Romulus and Remus‚ whose mother was Rhea Silvia‚ a Vestal Virgin. Vestal Virgins were in charge of keeping a fire from being extinguished and to keep a vow of chastity. Since Rhea Silvia broke this vow by becoming pregnant‚ she has to be executed. King Amulius feared the wrath of the unborn children’s father who might have been a god‚ so King Amulius imprisoned Rhea Silvia and buried the twins alive. The servant tasked with burying the twins alive took pity on the twins
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This story is about Esther. Esther was a great Christian woman who loved God and became a queen to save her people. Esther was and orphan Jew who‚ by her cousin‚ Mordecai‚ adopted her. She wanted to help her people from a man‚ named Haman‚ who wanted to kill all the Jews. Esther becomes queen to the king‚ by being picked from a line up of all the ladies in the city. The king believed her to be the best fit for his bride. The king‚ had a man‚ named Haman who helped him make choices over
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Henry V doesn’t let any of his men feel any less in his speech to them. He’s able to get the people who are below everyone else to the people who are higher to feel equal. Henry V speaks to all his men the same and that would make them feel equal. I will give three examples of how Henry V makes all his men feel equal. “By Jove‚ I am not covetous for gold‚ Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost”. In this line Henry V is telling his men that he doesn’t want gold and he doesn’t care who he’s fed. He’s
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The death of a child is traumatic especially for a parent. The pain and devastation they feel is overwhelming‚ as immediate emotions all come together. In the play‚ Agamemnon‚ Agamemnon makes this experience a reality. He has two options and he had to choose one: he either had to sacrifice his daughter‚ Iphigenia and if he didn’t do this‚ all his troops on board would die. In order to save the life of his troops on board‚ “he dared to sacrifice his daughter‚ a first offering to bless the fleet‚
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The term sati has wide ranges of definition depending on what language is spoken; in Hindu it means a village Mother goddess (satimata) who self-sacrificed her self on her husband’s funeral‚ the incarnation of goddess Parvati (wife of Shiva) and sati also means a virtuous woman‚ a woman bonded to her husband who will go where ever her husband goes and death is no exception. In the eyes of westerners‚ sati (spelled suttee) is a suicidal act where widows are burnt along with the corpse of her husband
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