... story. In each of Sophocles" Three Theban Plays he teaches a lesson through a story. These lessons are taught and projected to the audience through the plot, characters and theme of the play. The plays teach lessons on loyalty, keeping promises, fate, courage, prejudice, and the manners in which humans relate to each other. ... teach lessons that apply to life in present day. In Sophocles" first Theban play, Oedipus the King, there are many lessons that are embodied by the characters, the plot and the theme. The most obvious lesson is that a person, despite honest and great efforts, cann...

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... 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 conventional patriarchal biases ... being submissive. Though there are clear differences in character between Lady Macbeth and Antigone, one can definitively see their radically heterodox female ch...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... contact his three actors and Choregus in order to set 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 in any one play. In addition, if a female ... play, the male actors must assume the persona of a female and wear both an intricate mask and feminine clothing. For example, in the production of Antigone, a male will play the characters of Antigone and Ismene, the two daughters of O...

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... relevant and accessible to audiences of the present day. The conflicts and relationships in Sophocles' Antigone are brilliantly presented in this great tragedy and the truth and humanity of the characters transcend the extraordinary situations forming a bridge between modern day and the ancient world that must be preserved through the analysis of the precious texts available. Of the one hundred and ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate