Chorus of sophocles

disobeying the law. However, there are a few people, Gandhi, Henry Thoreau, and Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, who have demonstrated the proper way to break an unjust law to bring forth reform. This “resistance” is called civil disobedience. Sophocles, a Greek author, provided one of the earliest portrayals of civil disobedience while exploring the conflict between “honor-based versus law-based” conceptions of justice through the writing of Antigone (Honig 7). Antigone is one of the two daughters

Electra is a play written by Sophocles and it is a Greek tragedy genre. The date of when Electra was written is unknown. Some scholars have claimed that due to the plays stylistics features, Electra was written during the late career of Sophocles. The main character of the play is Electra who is still mourning her father’s death. Electra has several themes, such as cause and effect, disguise, and revenge. But, the main theme is revenge because throughout the play of Electra, you can see the theme

death. Sophocles emphasizes the importance of choosing family over authority in his play “Antigone”. Regardless of the punishment, Antigone contradicts the laws in order to pay her brother respect. King Creon clearly informs everyone on the consequences of tampering with the corpse of Polynices, Antigone’s brother. Antigone argues

Sophocles biography and drama connections “Antigone” begins with the city state of thebes being attacked by the Argive army and during the battle eticlies turns on his brother polyneices, and kills him then kills himself. Polyneices is given a proper military burial. But eticlies body was not buried instead it was left in the field to rot. The king of thebes, Creon made a law saying; that it was illegal to bury the body of a traitor, rather His body should be left for “carrion birds.” (antigone 1)

The Theban Plays is a tragedy, written by Sophocles as a 3-play saga: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus and the subject of this essay, King Oedipus. Human greatness is said to be the focus of the play, and what a fascinating topic, because it can be perceived in many ways. As well as discussing various angles on Oedipus, it will also be determined what human greatness is and is Oedipus great. The statement says that King Oedipus is a play about human greatness, but via Oedipus’ inner strength and endurance

their storytelling, Dramatics acknowledged the altering sensitivities in the human experience and, also, brought light to the extremities of human behavior and its reacting emotions. Some of the most famous epic tragedies today, like the famous, Sophocles’ story, Oedipus The King and Homer’s Iliad Book XXIV, display main characters in the focus of extreme emotional personalities with twisted fates and over-the-top reactions of anger and pride. Accordingly I believe that the writers’ intention in using

In “Impossible Mourning: Sophocles Reversal” by Fanny Soderback, she introduces the concept of a Sophoclean reversal at the heart Antigone. To introduce her argument, Antigone is associated with the private realm and divine law, and Creon is a representative of human law and politics. Soderback bases her understanding of Antigone on the work of Hannah Arendt, who argues that the Greek public realm is distinctly separated from the private realm, which rebuts most claims of how family and state were

Biography Sophocles is an ancient Greek playwright. There is little information on him because of the ancient time frame. He was born around 496 B.C. in a small village called Colonus, near Athens, Greece. His father was wealthy, which helped Sophocles hold an important role in society when he grew up (The Oedipus Trilogy). As a young boy, he studied the arts, and showed great potential. When he won the honor of leading the boy’s chorus in a song of victory, it foreshadowed his future successes

Horror and Self-punishment in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex An ancient plate portraying Oedipus listening to the riddle of the Sphinx. Oedipus Rex is a play whose qualities of inscrutability and of pervasive irony quickly come to complicate any critical discussion. It is a play of transformations in which things change before our eyes as we watch; where meanings and implications seem to be half-glimpsed beneath the surface of the text only to vanish as we try to take them in; and where ironical resemblance

This triggers Oedipus to further investigate to figure out who his parents are (Sophocles 38-39). Polybus and Merope as their son, so he assumed that they were his parents, so the messenger telling him that Oedipus was given to them made him begin to realize that he didn’t know himself as well as he thought he did. This new information was a crucial step in learning his real birth. Later in the story, he and the chorus are wishing he had not been saved from the mountainside, and he says “And now I