DUTY OR DAMNATION Obey man’s unfair law on earth‚ or disobey to save your soul? Daily we are faced with the perpetual issue of good versus evil; right versus wrong‚ all the while attempting to find a safe middle ground on which to stand so we may extricate ourselves from all distasteful situations. Humanity often finds itself preferring to stand idly by‚ allowing others to make the hard decisions‚ letting apathy take over and allowing others to lead them blindly. Easily denying responsibility for
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Lorraine Stock’s “The Importance of Being Gender ‘Stable’: Masculinity and Feminine Empowerment” chooses to focus on how both genders are portrayed in the romance and how “power is allocated to and appropriated” by each gender (7). Stock begins with the character of King Ebain whose “masculinity‚ which should stabilize the kingdom‚ is consistently being undermined” (9). An example of this is that unlike the other male characters in the romance Ebain has no children and not even an adopted son like
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dreams or goals that they want to achieve in order to better their future‚ or the future of their family. Everybody also has challenges that they have to overcome in order to make these hopes and dreams come true. An example of this can be seen in Lorraine Hansberry’s most notable and landmark play A Raisin in the Sun. This groundbreaking play is about the younger family who are a poor black family that lives on the Southside of Chicago. In this play Walter‚ Elaine‚ Beneatha have
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The title of this play is Antigone. It was written by Sophocles. Creon is a tragic hero because he suffers a horrible fate‚realizes flaw‚and learns from his mistake. Creon suffers a horrible fate. His pride leads him onto suffering. He’s failed from his power and happiness. The messenger said‚”Haemon is dead‚and the hand that killed him was his own.”(Page 1103‚Lines 19-20) Because of what Creon did that caused Polyneices to never be buried and Antigone be locked away in a cave‚ Creon would suffer
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Kissinger says‚ “The task of a leader of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” Kissinger means‚ a leader will put his people over himself to get them somewhere better. In the greek drama‚ Oedipus Rex‚ written by Sophocles shows a tragic hero who is an effective leader. King Oedipus is an effective leader because he wants to do the best for his town and family. Oedipus is an effective leader because he wants to do the best for his town. After King Oedipus calls the
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Dramatic Irony in Oedipus In the play written by Sophocles‚ Oedipus the King‚ there are several instances of irony. Dramatic irony‚ or tragic irony as some critics would prefer to call it‚ usually means a situation in which the character of the play has limited knowledge and says or does something in which they have no idea of the significance. The audience‚ however‚ already has the knowledge of what is going to occur or what the consequences of the characters actions will be. The degree of irony
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It finally settled in‚ Oedipus was in disbelieve of his discovery‚ he’d killed his own father and slept with his mother. He enacted the very same prophecy he desperately tried to avoid. In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus attempts to solve the mystery of the death of the former King Laius in order to save the city from the plague. His attempt leads him to another mystery leads him to the message from the message from the message about how he’s not truly the son of King Polybos and Queen Merope
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heroic personality. The tragic Greek heroic personality contains characteristics such as excellence (arête)‚ pride (hubris)‚ blind recklessness (ate)‚ and disastrous retribution (nemesis). Though most mythological heroes contain these qualities‚ Sophocles developed his own heroic personality. The sophoclean tragic hero is "one whose rigid and courageous loyalty to particular principles invites a disastrous fate" (Antigone Pg.14). Creon acting a classical tragic as well as Antigone‚ a sophoclean tragic
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In today’s society we would never imagine ourselves of having to kill our father and also having to be mary our mother. ”Oedipus Rex” by sophocles is a tragedy that discusses the downfall of a king. Oedipus was abandoned as a child by his parents‚ whom left him to die in a mountain because of a Prophecy he was told about. It stated that the Oedipus will kill his father‚ take his throne‚ and marry his mother. As Oedipus accidentally helps a kingdom‚ he becomes the king and so the prophecy and his
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Tragic Hero The Greek play‚ Antigone stresses the position of power and virtue against written law. Creon‚ in my opinion best qualifies for being the tragic hero. His actions‚ words‚ and the comments surrounding him prove that a man who is supplied for life could lose all of it. His actions demonstrate him as a tragic hero. Creon’s belief in nationalism and leadership is demonstrated when he said: “I call to God to witness that if I saw my country headed for ruin‚ I should not be afraid to speak
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