Domestic tragedy

In Antigone, Creon’s mind is pulled in two opposite directions: His hubris, and, in contrast, his human duty to the gods. His decision to not follow the gods’ decrees and the consequences of that decision are used by Sophocles to remind the audience to stand with the gods. Creon, the King of Thebes, produced a law in lines 222-228 that a man named Polynices could not be buried, a law that he knew was in direct opposition to a law of the gods. When Antigone tried to follow the gods’ law by burying

How does a king rule with a narrow mind? In Sophocles’s ancient tragedy, Antigone, the young woman, Antigone, had buried her brother, which was declared illegal by King Creon. Once Creon discovers her deed, he immediately sentenced her to a slow death, trapped in a cave. Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s fiancé, pleads his father to change his mind and consider the people’s thoughts in contrast to his own. Haemon serves as a foil for Creon’s development as a tragic hero by highlighting Creon’s narrow

There will always be flaws within people. Humans are bound to make mistakes. However, the difference between people is if one person lets these flaws and mistakes define him or her. A tragic hero is someone who lets his or her flaws inevitably lead to his or her destruction. In Fences by August Wilson, there is controversy about whether Troy Maxson is a tragic hero or not. He is not a tragic hero. Troy Maxson is a villain because he lets his flaws define him and his actions, he does not try to overcome

In the play Antigone, the protagonist Antigone is engaged in a war against man- not just Creon but man in general. She disregards the laws of man and initiates a symbolic man vs. gods battle. Although Antigone dies in the end, she succeeds in her goal of acting upon her divine beliefs above all else, even death. Throughout the play, Antigone, as a representative of the gods, continues to prevail over Creon. Antigone is brought in for committing the crime of attempting to bury Polynieces’s body,

Today, in American history textbooks, the significant aspects of how America begins is display, however the details that assist in the making of America are not. With this in mind, Fredrick J. Fausz, an Associate Professor of history and director of the Honors Program at St. Mary's College of Mary, decided to display a component of the time, through the article, “Middlemen in Peace and War: Virginia’s Earliest Indian Interpreters, 1608-1632”. In summary, the article conveyed the importance of three

Mattie. Ethan fell in love with Mattie. When Ethan and Mattie fell in love, they made a horribly rash choice making this novel a tragedy. A tragedy in literature is wherewhen a main character or hero suffers a downfall because of a character flaw, error in judgement, or forces beyond human control. The short novel, Ethan Frome, written by Edith Wharton, is a tragedy because of Ethan Frome’s character flaws, errors in judgement and the forces beyond his control. In the novel, Ethan Frome, Ethan

Cultures Contrasted Different cultures have their own ideas of how we as humans came into being. Two of those cultures are the Greeks and the people in the ancient near east. Their accounts of the creation of humans differ in some aspects, but are similar in others. The Ancient Greeks had different myths to explain the creation of mortal humans. However, in most of them, the creation of humans is an afterthought. It is possible that some Greeks thought Zeus created humans, while others thought

Tone of the Poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” To fully comprehend the tone of “Dulce et Decorum Est,” by Wilfred Owen, the reader first needs to understand the meaning of the title. The tile of this poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” comes form a Latin quotation from the great Roman poet, Horace. The full quotation, "Dulce et Decorum est pro para mia," which is also echoed at the end of the poem, translates to "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country.” Once this is understood, the author’s tone is

Robinson's "Richard Cory" is a sad and somewhat chilling poem. It does reflect that old adage, certainly, that appearances can be deceptive. The poem shows the people of the town admiring and envying him and his life. When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what one would expect, that is situational irony. In "Richard Cory," as the poem describes the character, readers believe he is a person who has everything going for him--he has it all. Readers understand why the townspeople--"we people

Jonah In the original biblical story of Jonah, Jonah tries to escape from G-d by ignoring his command to warn the people of Nineveh and taking a boat elsewhere. “It Should Happen to a Dog” by Wolf Mankowitz presents the story of Jonah in a different way, in which Jonah’s intentions were only to make a stop on Tarshish before ultimately reaching Nineveh. In chapter 9 of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, the story of Jonah is presented in a similar way to the original, with Jonah also trying to escape