his opening speech in the First Episode (lines 159-195) and how does this speech create tension? The bestowal of ruling legitimacy upon Creon sparks off the Greek tragedy. Polyneices and Eteocles‚ brothers of Antigone killed each other during their fateful battle for the Theban throne and Creon‚ as the closest surviving kinsman‚ rules as the Theban king. Creon then approaches the chorus of elders privately and pronounces his first speech‚ wishing to draw himself support from the group of elite elders
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specifically evoked through the language of the characters in the play‚ for example in Antigone‚ the use of the chorus‚ the messenger to report the violence to Creon‚ and the words spoken by Creon and Antigone throughout the play. The essay shall also be looking at the event and the interruption – how Antigone serves as the interruption of the continuum of Creon being untouchable and seeing the violence that interrupts as progressive for the play and not just negatively. The creative act shall also be spoken
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conventions is seldom found in Elizabethan theaters: Soliloquy or Elizabeth’s Sonnet 16. Know the plot summary of Oedipus Rex. Antigone: Creon condemns both Antigone and Ismene to death. Haemon‚ Creon’s son and Antigone’s betrothed‚ enters the stage. Oedipus the King: Oedipus naturally refuses to believe Tiresias’s accusation. After Tiresias leaves‚ Oedipus threatens Creon with death or exile for conspiring with the prophet. That baby was Oedipus. Oedipus at Colonus: Despite the warning‚ Theseus agrees
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city‚ Thebes. Her uncle is King Creon and sentences her to death because she decided to bury her brother‚ Polynices‚ after it was declared that he deserved no burial. Antigone’s sister‚ Ismene‚ was too afraid to go along with her. Antigone’s fiancé‚ (who is also King Creon’s son) Haemon‚ and his mother‚ Eurydice were appalled by the King’s decision to put Antigone to death because she did what she felt was right in her heart. Ultimately‚ everyone dies and King Creon is left all alone (Tan‚ 2006).
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feminine‚ maternal woman‚ instead giving up her marriage to Haemon for death and acting “hard and unloving” (Woodruff xviii). The all male audience of Greek theatre would resent how Antigone takes on the role of a man. Sophocles mimics this resentment through Creon’s outrage towards Antigone. At one paint Creon exclaims that “if [Antigone’s] not punished for taking the upper hand‚/Then I am not a man. She would be a man!” (Sophocles 20). Like Creon‚ the Chorus harbors animosity towards Antigone‚ telling
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battle of Thebes from the play of Oedipus. These two stories are similar in respect to they are told around the story of a king following a great war/battle that has forced them to make great decisions in order to insure the safety of their kingdom. Creon in the play of Antigone makes the choice to execute Antigone for going against the state in burying her brother Polynices. While in the story of the Odyssey king Odysseus hides in plain sight as a beggar in order to test the people of his kingdom’s
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The three plays Antigone‚ Hamlet‚ and Death and the King’s Horseman are all based in three entirely different settings‚ cultures and timeframes. Each author has chosen to emphasize the intrigue and exchange within each setting or small culture as well as the social consciousness of the time within each social group related the choices‚ emotions‚ and decisions related to death and chances related to the honor of the family as well as the social consciousness to family kinship. The human agency as
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Antigone by Sophecles‚ begins where she arrives at Thebes. She realizes that both of her brothers are dead but Eteochles was allowed to be buried. Creon‚ the king and also antigenes uncle‚ would not allow the same for Polynecies because he believed he was a traitor to the family. Antigone decides to go against Creon’s rule and buries her brother anyways. Creon
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1. What happened after Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest opened? 2. ( T or F ) Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has one set: a courtroom during the HUAC hearings. 3. ( T or F ) Ballet companies of today are afraid the public will boycott The Rite of Spring. 4. Calling a wife "the little woman" and saying that certain minorities exhibit recognizable traits such as laziness or stinginess are examples of: 5. Identifying closely with minorities was Edmonia Lewis‚ whose talent
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Durfee AP LIT 4th 19 Sept 2012 Achilles Mythological Allusions BartleBy.com Achilles story begins when a prophesy is made about Troy. The only way to capture it‚ would be if the Greeks had Achilles’ help. Thetis‚ Achilles’ mother knew that if Achilles went into this battle‚ he would die. So she dipped him in the purest of waters by holding his heel. Then sent young Achilles to Scyros where he was hidden away and disguised as a girl. Eventually‚ Achilles was caught by Odysseus and
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