Since the inception of Sophocles’ Antigone‚ there has been an argument regarding the true tragic hero of the play. It is a commonly held certainty that Antigone must be the tragic character merely because she and the drama share the same name. This is‚ of course‚ a very reasonable supposition. Surely Sophocles must have intended her to be viewed as the protagonist; otherwise‚ he would not have given her the name as the play’s title. However‚ analytically speaking‚ Creon seems to fit the category
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Oedipus Rex and Antigone. The latter is a play that expands upon the tragic hero Oedipus’ children‚ specifically his daughter Antigone. Antigone apprises the reader of the hostility of the two sons of Oedipus‚ Polyneices and Eteocles; the sons that fought for control of Thebes eventually murdered one another‚ leaving Antigone and her sister Ismene the only surviving offspring. The remainder of the play tells us of the chain reaction of Antigone’s death and Creon’s actions. Creon and Antigone both reveal
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Literature Songs Killing An Arab by The Cure History Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L’Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus". The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach‚ in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song’s narrator; in Camus’ story the protagonist‚ Meursault‚ shoots an Arab on a beach‚ overwhelmed by his surroundings. Meursault is condemned for his honesty about his feelings. He is
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outline how the literary world-system works. Here‚ as he emphasized in another essay in response to the following one‚ novels‚ as a literary genre‚ are representative of the most mobile strata of the system‚ not of the entire system‚ as an example to show the mobility of world literature. In his opinion‚ the study of world literature needs a collective work where the important facts of literary history be shared. In this way‚ his proposed method for studying world-system literature is “distant reading”:
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Short stories play an important role in literature‚ being sometimes more expressive than any novel of a more considerable length. Many people prefer them to novels: they are usually not so complex as novels are‚ there are only a few characters in them‚ they are easier to follow‚ and so on. They are popular all over the world. In this paper I would like to deal with short stories written by such great Canadian authors as Margaret Laurence and Sheila Watson. Their works are well-known not only in the
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ASSIGNMENT OF GROUP: C TOPIC: SUMMARY AND CHARACTERS OF MACBETH CONDECTED BY: SIR FARZAND ALI SHAH DEPARTMENT: BS (English) 2013 MEMBERS ARE: NIMRA Khan Roll no: 18 AGHA Kousar Roll no: 16 Shabana Roll no: 27 Sheereen Gull no: 21
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A common theme in literature is that of the tragic hero‚ a character that has suffered due to a flaw in his or her own self. Antigone by Sophocles has a few examples of this trope. King Creon excellently fits this mold of tragic hero. The flaw that makes Creon a tragic hero is his paranoia. Creon often believes his citizens and even close friends and relatives are out to get him. He is convinced that there are “anarchists putting their heads together’ in opposition to his rule all over the city
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Organizational Research Paper Executive Summary The company I chose to do my research study on is Spa. I was employed with Spa for about four years‚ spending two years at their corporate headquarters located in a busy neighborhood in lower Manhattan‚ and two years at one of their busiest spas located in midtown Manhattan. During my time with the company I did notice a difference between the corporate and spa atmosphere . Ironically‚ the corporate office seemed more relaxed than the spa. Most of
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In this play‚ Antigone is has already been fated to die at a young age‚ and one of Antigone’s many themes is Freewill vs. Fate. According to the definition of tragedy in Greek Theatre‚ Antigone would be defined as a tragedy. Antigone knew that if she buries her brother‚ the consequence would be death‚ as said by Creon. Ismene also tried to persuade Antigone. Regardless she goes and buries her brother. When she realizes that she has made a wrong decision at the end of the play. Antigone was not able
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Department of Education is proposing to broaden English IV to world literature. This would mean either removing or condensing British Literature. Should Beowulf be kept in the curriculum of senior English‚ or should it be replaced with world literature? Beowulf is one if the many stories that is read in senior English across the state. It is a tale describing a time of heroes and fantasy. Beowulf should be kept in English literature. It is a truly tremendous story. It entails three battles between
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