"Roles of duty and honor antigone" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 44 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Antigone Sentry Analysis

    • 712 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “Explain how you would perform the role of the sentry‚ in each of his two appearances‚ in order to reveal his change of attitude from his intial fear for his own life to his reliefe as he brings a guilty Antigone before creon” The sentry would be acted by a 5ft5 man‚ he would be feeble looking with messy brown hair‚ and he would also have a high pitched voice that breaks from time to time therefore showing his physical and social weakness through his pitch of voice. He would be wearing messy clothes

    Premium American films Poetry Debut albums

    • 712 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Past Events In Antigone

    • 832 Words
    • 4 Pages

    cursed or that fate was lead you to your destiny? In the philosophical play “Antigone” written by Sophocles‚ Antigone‚ the daughter of Oedipus believed she was “destined” to die because of her family’s curse that has proved itself true through many different family deaths. Creon‚ the king of Thebes‚ ordered that Antigone’s brother would not be buried since he was fighting against Thebes in the war. Eventually‚ Antigone went against the law‚ buried her brother‚ and was condemned to death. Sophocles

    Premium Sophocles Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus

    • 832 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Why Is Antigone Wrong

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Antigone Essay Thousands of years ago there was an ancient greek playwright that went by the name Sophocles. Sophocles was a brilliant writer and every play he wrote it never scored below second in contest. One of his most famous plays is Antigone. It’s a tragic story about a girl who has to decide whether to go against the law or follow her heart and bury her brother Polyneices. After a grueling war both of Antigone’s brothers have died. Eteocles fighting for king Creon and Polyneices fighting

    Premium Sophocles Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    English a lang & lit writtent task 2 Awethu Kakaza DP2 If Antigone had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience‚ how and why might it differ? The adaption of the play Antigone by Jean Anouilh is proof that works of literature can successfully be altered for a new purpose. By taking a solid story that possesses merits that the author requires and melding them with new attributes‚ an author can craft a new tale that can display their message by using

    Premium Sophocles Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Honor Killing

    • 3289 Words
    • 14 Pages

    Manoj-Babli honour killing case From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Kaithal honour killing case) Jump to: navigation‚ search The Manoj-Babli honour killing case is the honour killing of newly-married Manoj Banwala and Babli in June 2007 after a khap panchayat (caste-based council among Jats) in their Karora village in Kaithal district‚ Haryana‚ passed a decree prohibiting marriage against societal norms. Both belonged to the Banwala gotra‚ a Jat community. Hence‚ they were

    Premium Constable Police Haryana

    • 3289 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Antigone‚ a tragedy Ernest Hemingway wrote that “So far‚ about morals‚ I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” If something is moral but is breaking civil law should it be done? What if not doing this act was immorals? Would you let it happen? In the play Antigone‚ Sophocles portrays Antigone as one who focuses on moral law over civil law due to her self pride and love for her family; These actions lead to her tragic downfall

    Premium

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Contextualisation of Antigone. Original Setting Antigone is set originally in Ancient Greece in Thebes‚ The play is about the Princess Antigone rebelling against her Uncle‚ King Creon of Thebes‚ after he states that her brother Polyneices‚ who rebelled against his country‚ will not be buried after his death in war. Her other brother‚ Eteoclese is going to be buried with full military honours. Antigone‚ finding this unfair‚ asks her sister Ismene to assist her in burying their brother‚ who refuses

    Free Oedipus Creon Sophocles

    • 2204 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    as well as fine lines between what is socially acceptable and what is not. From a moral and societal outlook‚ Antigone is a character that seems deaf to reason while Ismene is a character that seems much too easily swayed by reason. Antigone is too headstrong for her own good. The only opinion that matters is hers; no one’s words could make her change her outlook on life and death. Antigone is so hell-bent on burying one of her two brothers that died in a battle against one another. Polynices‚ an enemy

    Premium Oedipus Morality Death

    • 874 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    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

    Premium Sophocles Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus

    • 556 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Antigone Feminist Analysis

    • 2008 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Keri-Ann Jones Dr. Carina English 212 WD11 29 September 2015 Antigone: A Rose amongst Thorns Idina Menzel sings “Let It Go” for ‘Frozen’ character Elsa. Elsa is a feminist in her own right‚ singing “It’s time to see what I can do. To test the limits and break through”. (#admirable) Elsa is declaring that no one can hold her back anymore. Despite our sweeping achievements‚ inequality today seems to be a no-win obstacle. It is a struggle but in reality‚ women all over the world are fighting for equal

    Premium Gender Woman Feminism

    • 2008 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50