... are natural to males, like bravery, aggressiveness, independence, and rationality. Female stereotypes include passivity, and emotionalism. Men were expected to go into the world, while women where expected to remain in the home. Throughout most of the countries history women had second class citizenship. In all the ages of ages, men have regarded women as inferiors to themselves and have robbed them of their co equal rights ... when Antigone thought we all had a duty to the dead. Page.140. Women were to remain indoors to superintend the servants who worked indoors and to receive the inc...

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... that affect a society. One of them is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience both a right and responsibility of a person to fight an unjust law. Government is given the right to control a group of people by the people composing the group. If an individual has a problem with an injustice they feel has been placed against them, then they have a right to convey this. Civil Disobedience allows ... declared illegal by Creon. "Look on me, you noble sons of Thebes- the last of a great line kings, I alone, see what I suffer now at the hands of breed of men- all for reverence, my reverence for t...

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... , at least I hope it was good sense, and here I am with a story that makes no sense at all; but I'll tell it anyhow, because, as they say, what's going to happen is going to happen, and " (701) The sentry rattles on and on, amusing the audience, annoying Creon and failing altogether to actually tell his news. When told by Creon to "come ... an entire troop of fearless soldiers shooting dice in panic over who has to tell the king "and his own "bad luck- in losing the toss "both amuses the audience and annoys Creon (702). Finally, the sentry leaves the scene, muttering under his breath abo...

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... by concerns of his well-being and Oedipus does not fall in his trap. Then, he threatens Oedipus that his daughters, Ismene and Antigone, are within his grasp. When Creon's men attempt to capture Oedipus, Theseus arrives just in time to stop them and instead take Creon as their hostage. Ismene and Antigone are released and Oedipus is grateful. In ... and Oedipus fears that these are his last minutes and hurriedly sends for Theseus. Upon his arrival, Oedipus reveals to Theseus a secret that only Athenian kings should have knowledge of and leads Antigone and the Athenian king into the shri...

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... may feel moved to decide who is right. Act II throws out some ideas that should help the reader make his/her decision. I believe Antigone's act was morally correct. First of all, she is only doing something that she truly believes in - that is, guaranteeing her brother's contentment in afterlife through a proper burial. Secondly, she believes that divine laws are far more ... (lines 500-502), Antigone says to Creon, "It wasn't Zeus, not in the least, who made this proclamation - not to me. Nor did that justice, dwelling with the gods beneath the earth, ordain such laws for men." With th...

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... king of Thebes, he had murdered a man, who turned out to be his father, in the fork of a road that leads to 3 different cities. Oedipus had accidentally proved the first half of the prophecy to be true, and would complete the second half by attaining Laios" position- wife and all. Joseph P. Wilson is quoted, "Iokaste's suicide is a probable indication that that she was unaware of ... relations with a biological relative, such as Iokaste, marrying ones husbands brother was considered incestuous during the days of Greek mythology. Iokastes incestuous ways are depicted when Oedipus says "A...

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... . Of power, of honor, of omnipotence is promised to the studious artisan! All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds, But his dominions that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man. A sound magician is a demi-god (Fau ... . " Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practice more than heavenly power permits." (Fau.Epilouge.4-8). M...

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... irony comes my way-weather its beneficial to me or has an unwanted negative impact on my life. Oedipus the King is a very tragic story. Oedipus is a high and mighty king with no worries what so ever. ... amongst his people. Oedipus has escaped a nightmare curse that was laid upon him at birth. He ran away from all the horrifying prophecies: marring his own mother; breed children with her; to kill his own father. After he arrived to ... the families in both of the above mentioned stories. The stories are complete different in mannor, time frames they take place, and emotional situations. ...

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... rebellion is especially threatening because it upsets gender roles and hierarchy. She walks into her fate with her eyes open all along the way. Aristotle's poetics applied to "Antigone" through moving the audience's emotions by having painful circumstances strike those that are either friends or related to each other, blood relations. ... has no problem working by her self either. She demonstrates this when she slipped by all the guards that were protecting the dead body of Polynecies. " I am not afraid of the danger; if it means death, it will not be the worsts of deaths- death without...

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... his own. Another example of a character that suffered from an awful cause of blindness is Gloucester. Gloucester's blindness denied him of the ability to see the goodness of Edgar and the evil in Edmund. Although Edgar was the good and loving son, Gloucester all but disowned him. He wanted to kill the son the later would save his life. Gloucester's blindness began when Edmund convinced him by ... people, assuring them that he will not rest until the killer of Laius had been found. Unknowingly, Oedipus is the killer of the former king. He is unaware of the circumstances that his birth br...

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