Theseus Character Analysis

Knight,” and “Le Morte d’Arthur.” Within these three Medieval stories, the ideals of courtly love

Now Theseus is older and is in his father’s palace in Athens, the fame seeking youth decided to set his sights on a new journey. A journey which would lead to him being loved and remembered by all the people of Athens. During this time Athens had a severe problem, the neighboring island Crete would attack them every so often. The king of Athens decided to try and compromise with Crete. He stated if Crete left Athens alone for nine years they would send fourteen Athenian youths seven male and seven females as a sacrifice to Minos to be fed to the Minotaur king Minos pet. The king of Athens goal was to build a strong navy, so they could defend themselves from Crete. Surprisingly the king of Crete Mino kept his word and never attacked Athens. Now nine years had come, and it was Athens turn to keep their word. The king of Athens was conflicted as he knew the value of keeping one's word. Theseus seeing this as the perfect opportunity to earn new fame and liken his image in Athens volunteered as the seventh male Athenian youth. Theseus’s goal is to slay the Minotaur and save his fellow Athenians. Theseus promises his father, he will return alive and when he does, he will change the color of the sail on the ship from white to black. In the event the sails stay black his father should assume Theseus has met his demise. After the Athenians arrive in Crete they are welcomed by King Mino’s and princess Ariadne, upon seeing

A medieval romance is a kind of writing that has a mysterious, supernatural setting, idealizes chivalry and courtly love, and may involve masking a character's real identity. Usually the hero of a medieval romance is a knight who takes an unusual challenge and whose triumph brings glory to the king and the nation. This paper will be an analytical essay, I will examine the writing “Sir Gawain and the Green knight” and show how it fits into the medieval romance genre.

Theseus has many changes in his character throughout his adventures. These developments in his mindset lead him from being a depressed, weak child, to a strong leader that many look up to.

“All men make mistakes- that’s not uncommon. But when they do, they’re no longer foolish or subject to bad luck if they try to fix the evil into which they’ve fallen, once they give up their intransigence.” (lines 1139-1143) says Teiresias to Creon. Teiresias comes to warn Creon of what he has in store for himself if he does not undo his wrongdoings. Teiresias helps to develop Creon into a tragic hero, helps advance the plot of the play by creating tension, and helps to develop the theme of the laws of God versus the laws of man. Their interaction with each other brings out Creon’s unreasonableness, anger, and disrespect in his character.

It was only after counseling with Teiresias that Creon changes his view on his rule. At first, Creon rejects all of the seer’s insight and views him as wrong and idiotic. Teiresias knows that Creon cannot escape his doomed, predestined fate and later prophecies”...strange noise of birds...harsh and dissonant impetus...murderous talons; for the whirr of wings” (Sophocles 54). Understanding the gods, Tiresias comprehends they are angry and they sense corruption in the city of Thebes and in the leader. Creon reconsiders his foolish actions and obeys the wise seer and sentinel. After he leaves, he gives Eteocles a proper burial and returns to the tomb where he realized his mistakes too late and his son and Antigone commit suicide.

This is going to about the battle between antigone and creon on what should be done with the brothers.

Creon, the antagonist of Sophocles's play Antigone is a great example of a man who learns humility after causing mass destruction all around him. In the play, Creon is the King of Thebes and he is solely interested in political and social order. The previous King and Creon’s brother, Oedipus died and his sons Eteocles and Polynices were suppose to rotate the throne. However, the brothers ended up killing each other in a duel which led to Creo taking power. Creon angered his niece Antigone when he allowed her brother Eteocles to be given proper funeral honors, but not her brother Polynices. To make things more complicated, Haemon, Creon’s son is in love and intends on marrying Antigone. Going against Creon’s law, Antigone gives her brother Polyneices a proper burial and is caught. Creon condemns her to death despite the outcries of the chorus and his son. He begins to have remorse and says that she may be freed, but

Theseus grew up in his mother’s hometown, a city in southern Greece. His father was the Athenian king, Aegeus. Once Theseus was strong enough to move the great stone his father had placed, he sought out for him. Once reunited, Theseus had heard about the cruel ruler of Crete, Minos, building the labyrinth, and every nine years a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths had to be made. When the time came for the tributes to be handed over, “Theseus came forward and offered to be one of the victims.

If The Knight’s Tale suppresses laughter and thus the possibility of counter-discourse, the carnivalesque in The Miller’s Tale invites dialogue and divergence surrounding the text. Because the Miller concerns himself with exposing the pretense of social distinctions within his society, he creates the parallel between the Knight’s tale and his own. Even though both tales essentially talk about the same subject, they do so from radically opposed points of view. Two rivals compete for the favor of a fair maiden, but whereas in in The Knight’s Tale two noble kinsmen compete over the hand of the sister in law of Duke Theseus, The Miller’s Tale depicts a pair of clerks attempting to seduce the carpenter’s wife. The Miller’s story, however, is not

Theseus Returns to Athens Triumphant: Why Theseus Leaves Adriadne on an Island, How He Keeps the Tributes Busy on the Ship, and Why He Forgets to Raise the Sail.

The famous playwright not only introduces characters who promote feminism, but he also punishes those who believe women are inferior. Creon believes that women should obey men’s orders and is eventually punished for misogyny. “[Creon] wish(es) [that he] weren’t alive” (65) as a result of having a misogynistic attitude. He is soon punished as he realizes that the death of his son Haemon and his wife Eurydice were all caused due to his misogynistic attitude and stubbornness towards the decisions he later regrets. Furthermore, Creon is punished due to the fact that his set laws prohibited women to freely express their opinion and such resulted in him being the main victim of several deaths. Creon “invite(s) death” (65) and causes the citizens of Thebes to revolt against his foolish decisions resulting in his reputation as a king to diminish. Likewise,

Theseus, the leader of Athens, is going down a road and he sees four women crying on their knees. He asks them why they are crying and they say that their husbands were killed at the siege of Thebes and Creon, ruler of Thebes, would not let their husband’s remains be recovered from the field (912-951). He heard this and was so emotionally moved that he decided to march on Thebes and take back their bodies. He lead his army to Thebes and captured Thebes. After the battle he saw two men from Thebes who were barely alive named Arcite and Palamon. Theseus took them to his tent and had them healed but they were confined to a prison in Athens after Theseus withdrew from Thebes. While in the tower Palamon was pacing around his cell and he saw Emelye

Chaucer’s description of the Knight symbolizes many of the aspects of the ideal man in a courtly romance. The story that the Knight tells is resplendent with perfect examples of courtly love. The Duke, Theseus, is a prime example of a noble hero. He spares his enemies and puts himself in mortal danger to retrieve the remains of the mourning women’s husbands and is much aligned with the description of the Knight that Chaucer offers in the

The Knight’s Tale is a section of the famous Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Knight’s Tale starts out with the description of the king of Athens and former Minotaur slayer, Theseus. Now, Theseus was a man of great respect, and he helped whomever he could, including comforting women at the beginning of the story who were weeping over the loss of their children to the Minotaur years ago. He was also described as having a great prison, where he help two former princes Palamon and Arcite. These prisoners also happened to be cousins. One day, while looking out the prison window Palamon saw the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and it made him give a scream of joy, for he was in love. Arcite, who had been sleeping at the time buzzed to life and the noise and joined Palamon to see what he was looking at. When he saw the woman, he felt himself falling in love with her, even though he didn’t know who she was.