Sophocles Essay Examples

Women in ancient Greek society were seen as insignificant in comparison to men. They were stereotyped as being subservient and loyal cookers and cleaners. In Greek tragedies, however, women were given a major role that progressed the play’s plots and evoked the audience’s thoughts and emotions. While some women are portrayed as victims and vengeance…

Antigone by Sophocles and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen are both plays that illustrate the use of power in society. The motivations, and use of, this power are situational for the characters of each story and depend greatly on gender. The male roles of both Antigone and A Doll’s House exercise their dominance with…

2017 Women’s March movement; more than 2 million across the world, in all 50 states of the US, in all 7 Continents and with 673 Marches. Each different in a way, but all for the same reason; to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues. The First Women’s March was back in…

Throughout literature there has always been a battle between human law that governments put into place in order to govern societies as well as higher law which means the law of God. This battle has been fought in history and in books. The United States of America was founded mainly because of religious intolerance in…

When it comes to fate, the heart is what drives us to do things that we have never done before. There comes a time where we must ignore everything and do what we desire. The Greek tragic story Antigone, written by Sophocles, and the thriller NEED, written by Joelle Charbonneau, are both similar in regards…

As defined in class, a tragic character is a character who suffers because of a tragic flaw or, in Aristotle’s opinion, because of an error or mistake they made. They also tend to evoke pity or sadness in the audience. In Sophocles’s Antigone, Creon’s hubris and his stubbornness, which prevent him from taking advice from…

Throughout history there have been many great leaders, some better than others, but overall they have all shared various traits that are essential to a person in power. Ancient Greek literature has continuously proved that leaders possess specific qualities, including negative ones such as moira (destiny), hubris (extreme pride), and peripeteia (reversal of fortune), all…

Every story has something to share with the audience, something that is able to make them feel part of the story. Its purpose is to make the reader feel what the protagonist is feeling. Generally, in literature, the protagonist is a good guy. In this case, it is about tragedies and tragic heroes, but how…

The most important difference between Antigone and Lysistrata is the roles these Athenian women play. While the audience sees Antigone as a rebellious character, Lysistrata is seen as a heroine for stopping the war. This difference is important because of the ways each protagonist goes about displaying their loyalty to the gods and their people….

In the play Antigone the two main characters each go through their own hardship and after examining each I believe that I have to sympathize with Kreon the most. I believe this due to the fact that he ends up miserable and alone. Meanwhile Antigone escapes it all with her death before she is let…