Oedipus at Colonus

Civil disobedience is an peaceful act of disobeying a law or demand of a government or higher power. Nonviolent protest has been demonstrated since the ancient Greek times to the segregation of blacks and whites to today’s media. In various literature several authors had characters demonstrate the act of civil disobedience, however, this act has also been demonstrated by real life people such as Rosa Parks and her refusal to give her seat up for a white man. Film is another way civil…

Antigone is very prideful, a hamartia which drives her to purposefully defy the laws of the state and blinds her to the consequences her actions might bring, ultimately leading to her demise. Antigone knowingly disobeys the laws of her ruler by burying her brother, Polyneices, and is proud to do so out of the conviction to remain loyal to her family and the laws of the gods. Polyneices died in battle as a traitor to the country of Thebes and King Creon has insisted that “no traitor is going to…

Sophocles, through one of his greatest tragedies Antigone, touches on several timeless ideals in society, and how the lack of one and excess of another can result in dire ramifications. It follows the story of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, a rebellious young woman who decides to give Polynices, her brother, proper burial rites after a battle, in defiance of the law decreed by Creon, the King. One of the topics that the Greek dramatist touches on is powerlessness and the resulting lack of choice…

Edward Snowden: The True Traitor, or Prometheus’s Patriot? He ruins the world. He gains their trust, then breaks it for naught but his own sake of mind. He says he’s qualified, but he’s not in the records. He sits there, protected, gathering more and more money, until he gets enough, then ruins them and leaves. He says he loves his motherland, but seeks asylum in another country instead of trusting in the court system of the one he says he loves so much. He says he wishes to…

The message the author is trying to convey is that the situations that all of these Vietnamese people went through were terrifying. For example, in the poem “One Engine”, “...Communists catch us fleeing, it’s a million times worse than staying at home” (87). The author uses the word fleeing instead of other words like escaping, and leaving because fleeing has a negative connotation, this makes the reader understand that Ha and her family did not leave by choice, but were forced out of there…

The repercussions of revenge and anger are also prominently featured message throughout both texts. They highlight 2 possible courses of action of anyone in that situation of tragedy and betrayal. In Electra’s case, the audience see the consequences of revenge acted in haste and reactively. When she killed Aegisthus, this act was justified to the people as he was the catalyst and reason for her father’s death. However, when she took to her own mother’s life, the citizens of … strongly…

I remember it so clearly how horrifying it was. By “it” I mean the death of Prince Haemon, son of King Creon. When the servants and I got the command to free Antigone, we went as fast as possible (8). While she did go against Creon’s wishes, it was noble of Antigone to try burying her brother; I respected her for that (1). When we got there, Princess Antigone was dead from suicide, going to the heavens, but that wasn’t the worst of it (2). Confused and horrified came Haemon (6). He was in a…

It all begins the feeling of wanting more, in this case it happens to be power. Every individual likes the taste of power and there are some who can't get enough. However, some become so overflowed in it that it ultimately leads them to their own self doom. It started with two men who were named Eteocles and Polyneices they were suppose to share the title of king for their land after their father passed away. Later this deal could not be kept thus they end up slaying each other in war and then…

SAR Essay Who would have ever figured that some Greek Mythology stories are alike? Well maybe if you wonder that as well, I can tell you if you continue reading. A few examples are Arachne, Phaethon, and Daedalus and Icarus, they are all alike. Some of the important lessons in Greek Mythology in something like these stories are, follow directions and think of others and not just yourself. In the myth “Arachne” by Olivia Coolidge, the moral taught is people need to stop trying to compare…

For an individual to keep an oath, it may be an outcome of right or wrong. An individual may innocently keep their oath for a good outcome, but their result may be a bad omen. In this reading prompt Jephthah, Agamemnon, and Clytemnestra all struggle with their actions of promise and vengeance. Jephthah becoming a man of battle, has his difficulties separating right and wrong. He wanted to defeat battle and have the Ammonites be given to his hand, however he did not think about his consequence.…