... seem to perpetuate the dominance of men and subordination of women, Shakespeare and Sophocles seem to question the validity of those beliefs in their plays, Macbeth and Antigone, with their radically heterodox female characters-they neither conform with the loving tenderness nor the acquiescence and tendency to submit to authority commonly associated with women. Both Shakespeare and Sophocles clearly attack the ... Macbeth shatter the image of acquiescent women being submissive. Though there are clear differences in character between Lady Macbeth and Antigone, one can definitively see th...

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... involved parties. It is the pinnacle of Greek theatre and Sophocles, a budding young playwright, has written a new play entitled Antigone. To successfully produce his play Sophocles must follow specific guidelines set up by the state by first making an appeal to the Archon ... up a series of practices and begin designing masks for each character. Each actor will be required to perform a variety of characters throughout the play and thus wear multiple masks due to the Greek rule that allows only three actors to have speaking parts ... persona of a female and wear both an intricate mask a...

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... this essay, the subject of study will be the conflict between the dominant and the subjugated. Specifically, the focus will be on the conflict between father and son. In Sophocles' Antigone, the opposition of Creon and Haemon mirrors the main conflict and is a reflection of the modern dynamics of father-son relationships rendering the subject eternally relevant and accessible to audiences ... concern for his welfare. Perhaps Harmon's ability to transcend the natural conflicting elements that exist between him and his father stems from their similarities. As stated in the introduction to ...

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... continues as the blind man, who was exiled from Thebes, is lead by his loyal daughter Antigone to Athens and to his death in the next of Sophocles" three Theban plays, Oedipus at Colonus. This play delivers many messages in the same way, through the characters, through the plot and through the theme. As the lessons in the previous play were mainly ... protect his young girls when he was exiled and after his death, which Creon broke when punishing Antigone harshly for her deeds. The personalities of the main characters in this play are, interestingly enough all very much the same. Almost...

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... a practical necessity. It made the transitions between scenes, giving actors the chance to enter and leave the playing area, and even announced what characters those actors portrayed. But the function of the chorus goes beyond this. The choral odes, accompanied by dancing and music, were part of the ... tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situation is brought about by the man's miscalculation of reality or the characters find themselves between two conflicting principles and are confronted with a choice, the results of which are always fatal. Th...

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... in this story is Oedipus´ actual father who ordered to have the boy killed and then in a karmic twist got killed by his son as foretold, the rest of the characters have no personal blame for what was to occur. In other words the shepherd who saved the boy, Oedipus running from Corinth, Jocasta marrying the man who she fell in ... saved Oedipus the family and the state. Instead the revelation of the truth will bring on many tragedies that will influence and bring death to the family and conflict between Antigone and Creon. It is furthermore obvious that Jocasta and the shepherd had a si...

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... role. Events should be shown without emotion and the text alienated by reporting on events rather than performing them. (www. ; Dramarama 12, 2002: 93) Rather than feeling empathy for the characters, the audience should be inspired to change the evils of society brought to their attention. As Brecht himself says, "The actor himself does not become completely transformed on the stage ... Fugard and their repeated use of societies outcasts as a means to portray the condition of all people. Fugards The Island ends with Winston's open-ended monologue in the character of Antigone. No physica...

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... seems certain may not necessarily be as it seems. These hidden agenda's are also the theme of many modern day literature and media productions, where the audience is aware of a characters heritage yet the protagonists remain oblivious. To put it in a simplistic context, Oedipus is much like the modern day 'soapies', where tragedy and misery are woven into daily lives. Sigmund ... White has much resemblance to the fore mentioned Oedipus as Snow White is destined to be killed but escapes death by being pitied by their executioners. As is illustrated in Antigone and many other fables, hist...

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... with half-truths. He immediately flew to Switzerland as a result though. After 15 years of exile Brecht returned to Germany in 1948 and spent a year in Zurich working on Sophocles ANTIGONE and on his major theoretical work A LITTLE ORGANUM FOR THE THEATRE. After Zurich, Brecht moved in 1949 to Berlin where he founded his own Marxist theatre named, the Berliner Ensemble ... feel emotions, but instead to think about what was being presented to them. Brecht argued that plays should not try to make the audience believe in or identify with the characters on the stage; instead a play should f...

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