The Right Or Wrong In The Movie Antigone

The movie starts out with a back story otherwise known as the exposition that tells the story of Antigone’s father. Her dads name was Oedipus and he was the king of Thebes. When he was younger his mother sent him to an oracle that told him his future. The oracle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, his mother shipped him off to the mountains in the middle of nowhere. While alone and abandoned he was found and raised by a women and a man. When he found out his destiny

the laws of what you have to follow, even though the civil people don't have any patience for any excuses. In the play Antigone by Sophicles, and the movie A Few Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin, Antigone, Dawson and Downy stand up for what they think is right at that moment, and go against the laws they were to follow. The Greek Tragic Hero Antigone is

Gender inequality was a major issue a long time ago, and still is today. This issue is very apparent in the book Antigone and the movie Whale Rider. Antigone is about an audacious young woman who goes against the law and buries her brother because she believes it is the right thing to do. Her uncle Creon, the king of Thebes, realizes that the whole city agrees with Antigone. He still punishes her because he doesn’t want to seem weak, especially against a woman. Whale Rider is about a girl whose twin

In the 1959 movie Imitation of Life, we meet a main character, Sarah Jane Johnson. Sarah is the daughter of Annie Johnson who is an African American mother. The problem that conflicts the whole story is that Sarah rejects her mother and her friends in order to live a life as a white women. Since Sarah is white colored and her mother is Black colored, Sarah lives a life she doesn’t want. She wants to be “All white” as she puts it. As series of events pass on and Sarah’s mother gets sick and passes

In Antigone, both Creon and Antigone share some tragic elements: tragic hero, hamartia, hubris, and nemesis. However, Creon is a more tragic hero than Antigone because his character has tragic elements that are absent from the character of

This essay will focus on the messages about masculinity and femininity from Sophocles’ play Antigone. For class we watched the Greek film version of the play from 1961 which is in Greek but it has English Subtitles. The essay will use both male and female characters from Antigone to show examples of masculinity and femininity. There are characters that are either positive or negative, characters that serve as role models, or characters who show what not to be like. First I will write about the positive

against the normative Patriarchal standards are countless, be it fiction or non-fiction. This point can be seen throughout the stories of Antigone by Sophocles and Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro. Women repeatedly use Self-sacrifice as a tool of rebellion in a society which does not give them a power or voice. Women in a position of Lack of power Antigone is set up in ancient Greece which is a heavily Patriarchal society. Women were not considered citizens and were primarily seen as child-bearers

action is right, which Terry was able to do. The mob owning the waterfront has killed so many good men, that Father Barry stands up when no one else would, to share his wisdom about how to solve this issue by stating, “And every time the mob puts the pressure on a good man, tries to stop him from doing his duty as a citizen, it’s a crucifixion.” This pressure that Father barry mentions doesn’t just cause a crucifixion of the body, but also the soul. WIthout one being able to make right decision