... knowledge that plays as a prelude to our demise. This Aristotelian thought of seeking true knowledge when shared with power and pride can lead to ones downfall as seen through the plays of Doctor Faustus and Oedipus Rex. One does not have to look behind the words and actions to discover Faustus" pride, the willfulness of his falling from God, or his egotistic ambition to ... of secular learning are rejected because their ends do not satisfy his demand, but notice what his demand is. He does not pursue for the sake of truth, but for power, superhuman power, the power over life and death....

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... to bury her brother's body. Polynices is her blood, her brother and her family. Antigone understands if she is caught, she will be killed. "I"ll bury him myself " (1032), She tells her sister Ismene. "And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I"ll lie with the one I love and loved by him" (1032). Antigone does not care about the outcome ... of this crime. She loves her brother dearly, and wants him to receive a proper burial. "Although celebrates as a source of great joy ... report, boy some new for me? My wife dead? O dear god! Slaughter heaped on slaughter?" (1063). S...

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... two brothers: Creon is burying one to desecrate the other. Eteocles, they say, he was dispatched with proper rites as one judged fit to pass in glory to the shades. But Polyneices, killed as piteously, and interdict forbids that anyone should bury him or even mourn. He must be left unwept, unsepulchered, a vulture's prize, sweetly scented from afar. That's what they say ... one twisted off her earthly days with cord; and thirdly how our two brothers in one day each achieved for each a suicidal nemesis. And now, we two are left. Think how much worse our end will be than all the rest if w...

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