Is love really all you need? Over hundreds of years‚ plays have shown a variety of themes and stories; a popular and recurring one being love. It can be paired with different and sometimes opposite themes to add excitement‚ even making the story have unexpected plot twists. Focusing on two plays; Sophocles’ Antigone and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night‚ the theme of love will be depicted differently. Love‚ a universal subject in many plays‚ can be incorporated as various forms and be paired with
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Ismene‚ to help her bury her brother‚ but she is too afraid to break the law. After sprinkling dirt on the body‚ Creon sentences Antigone to death‚ even though she is engaged to be married to Creon’s son‚ Haimon. Antigone‚ Haimon‚ and Creon’s wife‚ Eurydice‚ all commit suicide in the end. Antigone exemplifies Aristotle’s classical definition of a tragedy by consisting of quantitative and organic parts‚ making the story seem probable‚ and having a tragic hero. In Aristotle’s definition of a tragedy
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The Imperfect Hero For many people who knew Pat Tillman‚ he was an American Hero‚ who forestalled his professional football career and joined the army after seeing his country attacked on 911. He valiantly fought for his country and for his beliefs‚ and even when Pat died in Afghanistan in 2004‚ his memory lives on in the minds of many people. According to Aristotle‚ the hero is not a true hero like Pat Tillman‚ but rather a person who has serious flaws that lead to the downfall of the character
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Antigone In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the main conflict is civic authority versus natural law. Creon‚ the king of Thebes‚ is faced with the decision of standing by the laws he has enforced or to make the people of Thebes happy. Antigone‚ the protagonist of the play‚ countered Creon by breaking his law to not provide a burial for her brother‚ Polynices. The fundamental struggle between the protagonist and antagonist is developed according to a set pattern that theater audiences have come to recognize
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has done ‚ well if you want to know then read this essay to find out about him”. What were some of the greatest victories in his life ?Philip was born in Valladolid in 1527 and died in 1598. Philip was the youngest son of the king Amyntas III and Eurydice I. In his youth Philip was held as a hostage in A place called Thebes which was then the leading city of Greece‚ this where he learned his military skills .In 1543 he married Mary of Portugal but she died in 1546 giving birth to their son named Don
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The play Antigone is a tragedy play that most of the characters were killed at the end. The central theme of this play is “civil disobedience” and is about the controversies between gender‚ power‚ age‚ religion‚ beliefs‚ and laws. The script begins with Antigone asking Ismene to bury their brother because Creon‚ their uncle passed down a decree saying no one is allowed to bury Polynices because he betrayed his country can killed his own brother. Antigone chose to disobey the law and was sentenced
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Pride Pride is not a symbol for strength‚ but of arrogance. It does not modify you as a powerful individual‚ but as a weakling with feign courage. It is not something to be proud of‚ for it veils you with vanity and ignorance so delicately and innocently that it betrays your conscience into thinking that it is a normal feeling that has no consequence whatsoever. An example of this infamous trap is presented in the play of tragedy Antigone‚ written by Sophocles himself. A character by the name
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It all ends tragically‚ with the deaths of Antigone‚ Haemon‚ and Eurydice. Throughout the entire play‚ even between arguments not mentioned like the son vs. father fight between Haemon and Creon‚ the entire play is an epic battle of right vs. right‚ with the only thing ending the quarrels being death. Antigone and Haemon
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THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND EAST ASIA: JAPAN ON THE OFFENSIVE: 1941-42 When the nations of Western Europe became embroiled in World War II‚ Japan began to expand into the Southeast Asian colonies of the European powers. After the United States retaliated with economic sanctions‚ Japan planned a concerted attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbour‚ Hawaii‚ and other Pacific and Asian targets. For a time Japan was master
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Antigone Study Guide Questions Prologue and Scene One 1. What differences do you notice between Antigone and her sister‚ Ismene? Examine their character. 2. The action of the play begins immediately with a conflict between Antigone and Ismene. What is the cause the cause of the conflict? 2. Why do you think that Ismene will not help her sister with her plan? 3. Do you think Antigone has thought her decision through? Why or why not? 4. Why does Antigone get so angry at her sister? Do you think
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