OHHS AP/Pre-AP English Name _Sara Libonati_______________________ Per. _3____ Major Works Data Sheet: Fiction (Updated 10/18/2011) Note: Cite references in MLA format, in-text, and parenthetically. Complete a Works Cited page of all references used. Title: _Anitgone__________________________________ Author: _Sophocles________________________________ Date of Authorship:_5th Century B.C.__________________ Date of Original Publication: _5th Century B.C.__________ Genre: _Tragic Drama____________________________
Both Sophocles and Jean Anouilh use the simple story-line of a girl defying her uncle and king in the face of death to reflect upon the events and attitudes of their days. Sophocles' Antigone models the classical pattern of tragedy by incorporating key elements such as a tragic hero with a fatal flaw and the Man-God-Society triangle. Creon is the tragic hero who disturbs the natural harmony of Thebes by denying Polyneices a funeral. Antigone is the catalyst who forces him to reckon with the consequences
the black letter law presented in our current legal system, obedience to a form of law has always been a contentious issue. Referencing Sophocles Antigone, the exercising of executive discretion from from a natural law theorist perspective shall be discussed. Antigone primarily presents an unfettered executive discretion possessed by Creon, presented by Antigone stating ‘since apparently the laws of the god mean nothing to you’. However, natural law as a deity is undoubtedly manifests itself in
Laviathan, Thomas Hobbes ' most important work and one of the most substantial philosophical texts of the Seventeenth century, was written largely as a response to the political violence and turmoil of England’s civil wars. In Leviathan, Hobbes, using science and reason as a foundation, attempts to create a concrete and methodological solution for peace and political stability. In the context of a historically violent and fear stricken period in which Leviathan was written, it is logical that Hobbes
The Golden Ruler “God mixed gold in the composition of those of you who are qualified to govern; in those fitted to be guardians he mixed silver; and in the farmers and artisans he mixed baser metals” (Plato 1). Philosopher and author of The Republic, Plato classified men and women based on three categories. These categories were separated by working classes--workers were in the baser metal category, soldier-guardians were in the silver category, and the elite philosopher-rulers were in the gold
Greek literature is an assortment of compositions in the Greek dialect, with a constant history reaching out from the first thousand years B.C.E to the present day. From the earliest starting point, journalists were Greeks living in Greece, as well as in Asia Minor, the Aegean Islands, and Magna Graecia (Sicily and southern Italy). After the successes of Alexander the Great, Greek turned into the main language of the eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Realm. Writing in Greek was created over
philosopher searched for moral self-enlightenment by questioning all who claimed to possess wisdom. | Aristotle | | Plato | | Socrates | | Sophocles | Question 22 of 60 He wrote the first true history in his book of "inquiries" discussing the conflicts between the Greeks and Persians. | Herodotus | | Socrates | | Sophocles | | Thucydides | Question 23 of 60 He is known as "the father of history." | Aristotle | | Thucydides | | Socrates | | Herodotus |
Truax Shelley Graff and Michael Smyth Senior Project - Background Paper 1 28 June 2014 The Origins of Drama and Theatre Theatre is an art that transcends time and builds a new world for the audience atop the stage. A play is defined as “a dramatic composition” or “the stage representation of an action or story” (The Merriam-Webster Dictionary). This refers to drama being performed live by actors on a stage. Ancient Greece is accredited to inventing theatre and drama. In Greece during that time, at the
The role of hubris, a theme commonly present throughout the works of Sophocles and particularly evident in Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, not only exalts the Greek nationalism present at the date of composition but dictates the course of the story, evolving as its tragic hero works through his fated anguish. Hubris, defined as exaggerated pride or self-confidence, is the earmark character trait of Oedipus and perhaps Creon. However, it is the abandonment of his sanctimonious nature that
The author I have chosen is Virginia Woolf because I found her a very interesting woman. She is an English author who wrote modernist classics and in 1915 she published her first novel called The Voyage Out. She did not attend to the school, instead, she was taught at home; the first thing she started to write was a family newspaper called the Hyde Park Gate News, in which she recorded all the funny moments her family spent. With the death of her mother, she went to King’s College in London where