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- 111: Philocetes
- Philoctetes, the bowman, is a most haunting and ambiguous character of Sophocles. He represents the pain which the world subjects all creative people to. Keeping his simplicity and innocence in a world of confusion and lies ends up being his greatest challenge. Through intense character portrayal, Sophocles presents the story of Philoctetes in a way so that the reader can empathizes and truly understand the pain of Philoctetes. The story begins when Odysseus and Neoptolemus are on ...
- 112: Exploration Of The Theme Of Or
- ... in The Iliad, the world s order is defined by men, and retributions for violations are meted out by the gods acting directly and through the manipulation of men. In Sophocles Oedipus the King the order of the world is ambiguously defined and justice is returned to those guilty of transgressing these rules by the gods. The story of Joseph in ... and intervened. The gods continued to take part in the Trojan War, which was in itself a result of men seeking justice for a violation of the guest/host relationship. Sophocles shows us a third view of the world s order. In Oedipus the King the order of the world is supposed to be a set of inviolate standards with which ...
- 113: Dionysus
- ... dramatic competitions were conducted. The most important festival, the Greater Dionysia, was held in Athens for five days each spring. It was for this celebration that the Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote their great tragedies. Also, after the 5th century BC, Dionysus was known to the Greeks as Bacchus. Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. He is ... dancing ground of Dionysus with an arrangement for spectators (theatron) was built in Athens, in the early sixth century. It became the great center for drama where plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were performed. Drama was produced at festivals, honoring Dionysus in his theater under the presidency of his priest, by performers wearing masks and special dress. That is how ...
- 114: Oedipus Versus Creon
- Oedipus Versus Creon At first glance, Oedipus and Creon are two very different people. But as time progresses their personalities and even their fates grow more and more similar. In Sophocles’s play “Oedipus the King”, Oedipus and Creon are two completely opposite people. Oedipus is brash and thoughtless, whilst Creon is wise and prudent. In “Oedipus the King”, Oedipus effectively ... Oedipus goes against the gods. This causes them to punish him severely. Creon is the exact antithesis of Oedipus. He thinks before he acts. Creon is wise and loyal. In Sophocles’ other play, “Antigone”, however, he undergoes a drastic personality change. He becomes more and more like Oedipus. Creon commits acts of hubris, kills and humiliates people for no reason whatsoever ...
- 115: Antigone And Creon
- ... the mistakes made in tragedies. They should have learned what not to be like as a citizen or human. In the classic tragedy Antigone, the third and final play in Sophocles¹s Oedipus Cycle, there are two main characters, Antigone and Creon. They are both strong willed and stubborn people. By their resistance to change, they both seal each others fate ... make neither of them willing to listen to the other. Many of their traits are identical, but their opinion s are so different that they can't stand each other. Sophocles did an excellent job in portraying the two vast extremes of the spectrum, passion and reason. This story hopefully proves to people that neither extreme passion nor extreme reason, but ...
- 116: Blindness In Oedipus
- ... person is said to have powers to see invisible things. They "see" into the future. The blind may not have physical sight, but they have another kind of vision. In Sophocles' King Oedipus, Teiresias, the blind prophet, presents the truth to King Oedipus and Jocasta. Oedipus has been blinded to the truth his whole life. When he does find the truth ... person does learn the truth, he tends to feel ignorant. The person wonders if things could have been avoided had the truth only been known. For Oedipus and Jocasta in Sophocles' King Oedipus, this scenario was just the case. When Oedipus learned the truth, his way of dealing with his figurative blindness was to blind himself. When Jocasta learned the truth ...
- 117: Antigone 10
- ... or a person who suffers so as to keep his/her faith and/or principles. He/She will pretty much never die. Through the old, Greek play Antigone, written by Sophocles, this quotation appears evidently true in the roles of King Creon, Antigone, and Ismene. In the quotation above, "The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his ... Creon, Antigone, and Ismene represent both aspects of the quotation, "The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins," throughout the play Antigone, written by Sophocles.
- 118: Antigone 9
- ... Creon showed that to much power will corrupt anyone. As Creon became blessed with total control his character, principals, and his judgement deteriorated. Antigone was written by a man named Sophocles. He was a man that did an excellent job of showing how absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Using Creon's utmost authority, Sophocles told of how everything he once stood for had crumbled. The play Antigone begins by telling of a troubled royal family. In this play there are nine main characters. I ...
- 119: Antigone - A Contrast Of Two T
- ... and I think I would have found myself disappointed by Townsend. After having contrasted to a substantial extent the two translations, my preference definitely lies with Kitto's version. Bibliography Sophocles. Antigone. Trans. H. D. F. Kitto. In British and Western Literature, eds. C. Robert Carlsen and Miriam Gilber, 9-36. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Sophocles. Antigone. Trans. Michael Townsend. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
- 120: Medea
- ... hates her children now, and feels no joy at seeing them.” (Oates, 292). In Antigone, one of the purposes of the chorus is to provide history to the audience. Although, Sophocles did change the structure a little. The first to enter the play are Antigone and Ismene, who are engaging in conversation over defying the edict forbidding their brothers burial, which ... while they are at the wars, with their sorry reasoning, for I would gladly take my stand in battle array three times o’er, than once give birth.” (Oates, 298). Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides Medea are two Greek plays that share many similarities. For example, the way the audience is informed of history and the defiance of the traditional role of ...
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