Antigone

Imagine a wretched, aged, bizarre, and rich lady who lives in an enormous, spooky house called the Satis House. She dresses in her white wedding dress, a white veil, and one white shoe. Wilted bridal flowers embed in her white hair, candles light the house, all the clocks stop at 20 minutes to 9, and dust and cobwebs cover her wedding cake while mice are picking at it. She is caught up on her ex-fiance, Compeyson, jilting on their wedding day. Obviously, she did not move beyond her heartbreak.…

Isocrates views rhetoric as effective and containing little t-truth, meaning the truth has multiple versions drawn from what we see, hear, and feel daily. Learning what he knows from Plato, rhetoric consists of only one correct answer and is used to educate. Speakers that have the natural ability to speak and teach by giving instructions use rhetoric properly according to Isocrates. Rhetoric is a valuable life skill used to make laws and in invent art and in today’s society it is used mostly to…

Queen of the British Celtic tribe the Iceni, Boudicca led a revolt against the Roman Empire. After the death of her husband and betrayal of his final will and testament which left his kingdom to both his daughters and the Roman Emperor Nero to hopefully stop attacks on their tribe and form an alliance. The kingdom was invaded and once Boudicca objected to this both Boudicca and her children were beaten and raped. As well as this the other chiefs of the tribe were robbed of their family estates.…

Joseph Strorm is shown as religious and strict father to David. Firstly, Joseph shows his true character in moments of concern when David asks for an extra hand. One evening, David had reached home and noticed a splinter in his hand which he pulled out but continued to bleed a lot. He was given assistance from his mother who helped him clean up the wound and neatly striped it up, as she finished helping her son, then David claims mentioning he could have managed on his own if he had a third hand…

The two different "demigods" Perseus and Heracles are different in many many ways, but also there are even the most littlest things (that really are the big things) that make the two similar. Both of the demigods are similar by being heroes, sons of Zeus, strong warriors, and the two were both born with a curse. As i was saying before these are the littlest BUT important similarities between the two. Perseus is different from Heracles by many ways, Perseus was a great demigod, he has done…

“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.” The quote means that fear can't be avoided but you or I have to accept that and even if it's unavoidable, I or you shouldn't allow it to paralyze me or my thoughts I have.Dulce wants revenge for her father's death but she couldn't find it in her to kill the man that killed her father so she talked to him the killed herself. Transformed is someone who was once this kind or type of person and then becomes a total…

“The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon the hero himself so that, instead of making himself better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant…” - W. H. Auden. According to Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, some examples of being a tragic hero can be defined as having a weakness, usually seen in pride, having to be faced with very serious decisions throughout the story, and the hero must have discovered his…

A servant comes along baring very important news, he tells a young boy that the girl he loves has commited suicide. The boy’s emotions drain from his body leaving him lifeless. It is then and there he decides he will go to her tomb and take his own life as well. Little does anyone know, this whole situation could have been prevented. Had Romeo and or Juliet not have relied on Friar Lawrence to assist in their relationship. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is most…

Everyone associates a hero in a cape saving someone from a dangerous situation, right? Well, in this circumstance, this hero is wearing a cloth, winged sandals and an invisibility helmet going to save his mother from marrying. I believe that Perseus is the hero because he had to perform a nearly impossible task despite knowing it was in hopes that he would be killed, with a little help he brought back medusa’s head to the king and finally he killed the king. He didn’t do this just for him, he…

Hammurabi’s codes were just/fair and some of his codes were not just/fair. This is because even though some of his codes ended in physical harm such as hand cutting, his codes had a purpose to help keep order and allow people to get justice. Hammurabi lived eighteen centuries ago and ruled for forty two years. “If a son has struck his father, his hand shall be cut off”. (Code 195) In this code it shows that as a son you must obey your father or else you will face harsh consequences. This quote…