When Two Stubborn People Dispute, Nothing Gets Solved In literature, characters tend to persuade other characters to change their minds to alter the outcome of the situation. This form of persuasion can be seen in the characters of Plato's Crito and Sophocles" Antigone. In Crito, Crito is trying to help Socrates escape from prison. In Antigone, Ismene hopes that she can keep her sister from giving ... their brother a proper burial. Also in Antigone, Haimon tries to convince his father Kreon not to execute Antigone as a punishment for her crime. Although these characters hope to convince other...

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... seem to think it necessary to restrain the roles of the fairer sex in their works. The presence of strong female lead characters, such as the title protagonists in Sophocles" Antigone and Euripides" Medea, shows that women do not always have to remain passive and in the background of a plot. In ... against the determined mindset of her sister, serving as a foil that highlights the good, and hero-like qualities inherent in the latter. For, against Ismene's protests Antigone chooses to walk, willingly, into the hands of danger, " what I shall suffer will be far less dire than dying an ig...

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