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    their own flaws. Antigone and King Creon’s flaws‚ for example‚ cannot be hidden because their flaws are what make them up as a person. They both share more than one fault; one of many faults is hubris. Antigone had another flaw that could be considered either good or bad‚ depending on the situation; that flaw was bravery. King Creon is very close-minded‚ and that’s one of the many flaws the king has. Hubris‚ bravery and close-mindedness — the tragic flaws that Antigone‚ King Creon‚ and possibly other

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    The past and the present are two verb tenses that are very familiar and heavily used when describing something from our childhood‚ or our plans for when we grown up. The past is constant and the future is a variable. We can remember our past and dream about our futures. They are as different as water is to a cave‚ and yet they can be compared that they are both something of the unknown. The past is a verb tense that expresses something that happened or was done in the past. It is used to express

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    In Sophocles Antigone‚ the title character’s gender has profound effects on the meaning of her actions. Creon himself says that the need to defeat her is all the more pressing because since she is a woman her rebellion upsets gender roles and hierarchy. By refusing to be passive‚ she overturns one of the fundamental rules of her culture. Women were subjugated and supposed to be silent spectators to the world around them as men’s‚ such as Creon’s‚ search for power fuels there desire to put women down

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    Burial at Thebes Antigone and Creon were the two main characters in the play Burial at Thebes. Even though they are antagonistic counterparts‚ their acting styles were much different. The actor who played Creon chose to modernize the way he spoke his lines. On the other hand‚ the actor who played Antigone stuck to a more Shakespearian reading; she was much more dramatic with her lines. It is interesting to have the two main characters use two different reading styles; it seemed to make the play

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    Uncle In AntigoneSophocles portrays Creon is as a leader‚ but as most Greek tragedies evolve‚ nothing remains the same for long. As shown in the play‚ Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus comes to power when he solves the riddle of the sphinx. His reign ends with a catastrophic death. After Oedipus’ death‚ his two sons‚ Polyneices and Etoeocles‚ tragically kill each other in battle. As a result Creon ascends to the throne. In SophoclesAntigoneCreon represents the tragic hero due to the tragic flaw‚ hubris

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    November 23‚ 2004 The two towers Did you ever have a goal? Everybody has goals‚ and there are a lot of things that help to reach these goals. Loyalty and friendship are really important goals in Lord of the Rings‚ written by J.R.R. Tolkien in1955. This work of literature is related to the time period when it was written. Tolkien compares World War Two to the war in the story and Hitler to Sauron. Furthermore‚ he reflects his own experiences of war in the character of Frodo. Lord of the Rings

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    This essay will compare and contrast two plays by aboriginal and Torres Strait islander playwrights. The first “in our town” by jack Davis and the second “the seven stages of grieving” by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman. Jack Davis was born in Perth in 1917. He was brought up at both Yarloop and Moore river native settlement. He first began to learn the language and culture of his people‚ the people of south- Western Australia the Noongar clan‚ while he lived on the Brookton aboriginal reserve

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    In the tragedy Antigone the main charactersCreon who is the king of Thebes and Antigone who is the daughter of the deceased king Oedipus‚ are fighting over Creon’s decision not to bury one of Antigone’s brothers Polyneices because he felt that he was a trader to his city but he was going to still bury her other brother Eteocles even though they died by the sword of each others hand in war over Thebes. Antigone chooses to disobey the law that Creon has set saying that nobody can bury Polyneices

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    Compare/Contrast  research  report   New  Year’s  traditions  in  another  country     Now  let’s  write  a  research  compare/contrast  essay/report  based  on   our  findings  or  evidence.         Introduction:       *Explain  what  New  Years  is‚  and  what  country  you  researched.     *  Tell  where  that  country  is  in  the  world

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    2010 Modern Day Tragic Heroes Tragedy‚ according to Aristotle‚ “is an imitation of an action that is serious‚ complete‚ and of a certain magnitude” and causes pity and fear to be felt by the audience. With this in mind‚ what qualifies a character to be considered the tragic hero in this type of literature? These qualifying characteristics are defined in Aristotle’s Poetics and Arthur Miller’s “Tragedy and the Common Man”. They believe that there are several components to a tragic hero: the character

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