Antigone
Antigone
Antigone was produced in 441B.C. by the Greek play writer Sophocles, who was born in 496 BC at Colonus, near Athens. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his genius during his own lifetime. He lived to the ripe ....
Cause of War: Stoessingers Misperception Framework
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How does Arthur Miller turn a family argument into an exciting, dramatic, and theatrical event?
In this essay I am going to discuss how Arthur Miller transformed a family argument into an exciting, dramatic, and theatrical event in the play A View from the Bridge. I will talk about characters, events and dramatic devices used to create such a dramatic event.
The protagonist of the play ....
Roman Literature
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Over the years, literature of ancient Greece and Rome has affected art, religion, philosophy, science and mathematics, medicine, drama, and poetry profoundly. It has served as a basic model for the development of later European literatures and, consequentl....
Rwanda
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The Foreshadowed Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet (Light v.s. Dark)
In human psychology, light is usually viewed pleasant in contrast to the unknown night that is considered to be evil. However in one of the stories of Shakespeare¡¯s, the role of the day being good and the night being unfavorable is reversed. The symbolization of Juliet being the l....
Tragedy in Antigone
Vanquished and alone in the desert of your silence. That is tragedy. In the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, it was the conflict between the highest moral laws and the laws that govern the day-to-day affairs of society that caused the deaths of most of the Oedipus family. Both Creon and Antig....