Colonus

There’s nothing grievous, nothing full of doom, or shameful, or dishonored, I’ve not seen; you’re sufferings and mine. The first thing Creon does in Antigone is declare a law that Polynieces’ the brother of Antigone will remain untombed for the hungry birds to devour. The law also declares that anyone who dares attempt the act to bury Polynieces will die by public stoning in the town. “You cannot learn of any man the soul, the mind, and the intent until he shows his practice of the government…

desires to do without looking back once. Similarly, Oedipus follows the same mindset as Marcus regarding being rebellious to those not in favour of an individual’s actions and being determined to accomplish any task. In Oedipus the King, the characteristic of Oedipus being determined to find the murder of King Laius is rather his downfall as it leads to his own unfortunate shortcoming. During that time, Oracles were given much respect as they provided insight about specific events, making it…

Aegeus knew that monarchy was not the way to run a proper government. “He declared to the people that he did not wish to rule over them; he wanted people’s government where all would be equal” (lines 144-146) Aegeus felt remorse towards the people of Athens and thought it was a time for a change. Since he was unable to hand down the crown to his son, he did the unthinkable. “He threw himself down from a rocky height into the sea and was killed.” This courageous act set out monarchy to the…

Beowulf is not a true hero. From the killing a misunderstood creature to only looking for his word to be spread, he did not meet most criteria explained by several sources of ethics. He even vaguely reached the Webster definition by being admired. The Enchiridion by Epictetus is called the handbook, with it reading several morality rules represented by chapters. It is considered the basis of humanity and anything that is below. While the Enchiridion was made 125 AD, Beowulf was estimated to be…

Antigone Paper Antigone was justified in her acts because there are a lot of people in today's society that did nothing worse by just breaking a law that was thought to be unjust by that certain person anyway, and we call them heroes, so in that case Antigone was a Greek hero. Antigone Accepted her punishment because she knew it was a law. Antigone was justified in her criminal acts because she did something that she knew would end up getting her in a lot of trouble, but because in her eyes…

In this story, Antigone shows the most ‘unshakable will power’ out of all the characters. She is the character who provides the most will power because she is willing to do the right thing even if it means breaking a law. Antigone’s will power really emerges more than the other characters. Without even telling the king, she buries her brother to honor him and once the king finds out, she defends herself to the point where she could have been sentenced to death. Ismene says to Antigone, “Bury…

Laws in the Roman world were centered on life as a Roman and what the Romans needed for a working society. The most important aspect of life was the role of the pater familias, or the oldest male family member in the family. The Roman laws were focused on family legacy and maintaining the image of the pater familias. This can be seen in both the Twelve Tables and the History of Rome. In the Twelve Tables, a body of laws written by Cicero, there are two tables regarding civil laws. Those civil…

From the beginning of this play, Lady Macbeth has acted out a very firm and masculine role as the wife of Macbeth. Although this dear lady is indeed a woman, at times she shows the characteristics of a male. Acknowledging the fact that Lady Macbeth was a female, at times in the play she held the most man like features, for example, when she questions the manhood of Macbeth, “when you durst do it, then you were a man/and to be more that what you were, you would/be so much more the man”(1.7.56-58)…

At this point in the story, Amar, Tobias’s old trainer who was presumed to be dead, explains why he has faked his own death, and how Tori’s brother George is also alive after also being presumed dead. Afterwards, Tris and Zoe go to Matthew, a scientist, for Nathalie’s (Tris’s dead mother) file, which showed that she was very close to what was considered genetically perfect outside the walls, but not quite to Tris’s level, who is genetically perfect. Matthew and his assistant, Nita, later test…

This is a day that will forever go down in history as the day the world, as we know it, was destroyed once again. The world was once destroyed during 2036 A.D. Civilization was officially rebuilt during 167 T.D. And now 149 years later the world was destroyed once again by Tenmersten's proxy. History has recorded this incident as tragedy that was a consequence of letting corrupted humans live. By allowing corrupted humans to live, be it for research or humanitarian purposes, society is…