Shakespeare’s famous revenge tragedy Hamlet is a story of unrelenting twists and thrills of madness and revenge. I have chosen to compare this play to Michael Almereyda’s film made in 2000 that is a modern interpretation of the original text and was an attempt to do to Hamlet what Baz Luhrman did to Romeo and Juliet. This a brief synopsis of the play; Hamlet is the son of King Hamlet who died before the play begins. King Hamlets brother‚ Claudius takes the throne and marries his wife. The story
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In Antigone‚ Antigone buried her brother‚ Polyneices‚ against Creon’s law. Creon warned the city of Thebes that if anyone were to bury Polyneices‚ a stoning would take place as a punishment in front of the public. Antigone‚ Polyneices’ sister‚ went to her sister asking for her help in burying her brother and when she refused to help‚ Antigone went ahead and buried Polyneices herself. Once Creon found out what Antigone had done‚ he sent her away to the middle of the woods in a closed tomb where she
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The personalities of the two sisters; Antigone and Ismene‚ are as different from one another as tempered steel is from a ball of cotton. One is hard and resistant; the other: pliable‚ absorbing and soft. Antigone would have been a strong‚ successful 90’s type woman with her liberated and strong attitude towards her femininity‚ while Ismene seems to be a more dependent 1950’s style woman. Antigone acts as a free spirit‚ a defiant individual‚ while Ismene is content to recognize her own limitations
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against each other. The characters in Antigone are forced to follow their unchangeable fate that the gods had chose for them; the characters lives are then dictated by fate and not their free will. One of the main characters‚ Antigone‚ had willingly chose go against the law of the king‚ Creon‚ to bury her brother who was seen as traitor. Even though Antigone had chose to defy Creon’s law‚ her fate of how she was punished would be appointed by the gods. Antigone eventually
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people throughout history have perished or suffered for their beliefs or their religion. The story of‚ Antigone‚ includes many examples of martyrs and the ways they suffer for their beliefs. Although they do not have the same actions‚ Creon and Antigone share the same motive of restoring respect to their despised‚ incestual family through different ways. Some examples are such as how Antigone tries through gaining honor as the last great leader of her kin and how Creon attempts by using power as
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represent the relationships between sexuality‚ gender and power? (Using Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet) ’The course of true love never did run smooth’ - This is the answer indeed. As well as this we come to understand that with the roughness of love comes indifferent sexualities‚ gender conflicts and powered bravados that entwine themselves into one big mess to indeed create the established plays we read today. Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet very much represent the themes of sexuality‚ gender and power through
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blames herself. In this version of Hamlet‚ Ophelia and Hamlet used to have a close relationship‚ meaning Ophelia might think that Hamlet was taking revenge on her because Ophelia chose Polonius over Hamlet. The reason why this version of Ophelia choose to sing sexual lyrics is because Ophelia had a sexual relationship with Hamlet.Ophelia might have thought that out of respect for her Hamlet will not hurt Polonius‚but it turns out Hamlet killed Polonius meaning Hamlet does not care about how Ophelia
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While Antigone by Sophocles and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry are very difference stories they have many similarities. Antigone is the about daughter of Oedipus trying to do what she believes is good. Her brothers have killed each other and while one gets a proper burial‚ the other is left to be eaten by wild animals. The reason he is not allowed to be buried is because King Creon believes he is unworthy of it. The main character Antigone defies Creon’s law and buries her brother anyways
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individual that influences the thoughts and actions of an entire society. Good examples of the power of a single person on a large group are seen throughout the Sophocles play Antigone. Two characters that influence the actions of the other characters are Creon‚ the newly appointed king of Thebes‚ and his niece Antigone. The conflict that unfolds between these two begins with the death of Antigone’s two brothers. One brother‚ Eteocles‚ dies defending Thebes and for that reason he is given a proper
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Romeo and Juliet/Antigone Rossiter Worthington Raymond once said‚ “Life is eternal‚ and love is immortal‚ and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” Many themes can be illuminated in this quote‚ but there are three that stand out and relate to the plot lines of these two tragic plays‚ in a way that makes the emotions and perception of the characters much more palpable and heartfelt. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Sophocles’ Antigone both develop a complex
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