When Ismene says to Antigone, in Sophocles' Antigone, "Remember we are women. We're not born to contend with men", she is reflecting the "mainstream" view of women in early Greece, one that was shared by many and opposed by few. Women were treated as possessions,...

To Love Is To Dishonor In the drama Antigone the main conflict was that of Anitgone and Creon. Antigone's brothers were fighting in the war. Eteocles was fighting for the Thebes, while Polynices was for the other side. While in battle they fought and killed each other. Ismene, Antigone sist...

The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. It started off with her brother, Polyneices trying to invade the city-state of Thebes with his Argive army. Long ago Polyneices left Thebes to be with his father, Oedipus who was thrown out of Thebes becau...

?In the play Antigone there are many references that link to the oppression of women. Creon made many convictions insulting womenkind. His convictions seemed true to a large population of men. I believe the majority of men, in the ancient Greek times believed in the undeniable dominatio...

Oedipus the King is the story of Oedipus who from birth was prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. When his parents found out about this prophecy they told a guard to kill the infant immediately. The guard went out to kill the baby, but found he could not do it, so he nailed the baby ...

Jocasta is an integral part of the play, Oedipus The King, by Sophocles. Her actions and thoughts are essential to the reader as well as the characters within the play. In this passage, there are several themes and significant items that she is addressing. Jocasta is trying to help relieve Oedipus ...

Oh, why do all the clues to who murdered Laius seem to lead to me? If I had known it was he I wouldn ever have been so stubborn, so pigheaded! I should have just moved over and let him continue on his merry way. Or no, better yet, HE should have moved over and let ME through! It serves him ...

"CONSIDER THE ROLE OF MINOR CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY. WHAT DO THEY DO TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DRAMA?" The drama 'Oedipus the King' is a classical tragedy by Sophocles set in the ancient city of Thebes. The characters learn that the city is corrupted by a deadly plague, leadin...

The Power of the Gods In the play, Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, Oedipus is rewarded king of Thebes when he frees the city from death by correctly answering a riddle by the deadly Sphinx. You came to Cadmus' city and unbound the tax we had to pay to the harsh singer, did i...

In Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Antigone, two characters undergo character changes. During the play the audience sees these two characters’ attitudes change from close minded to open-minded. It is their close minded, stubborn attitudes, which lead to their decline in the play, and ultimate...

In the play Antigone there are many references that link to the oppression of women. Creon made many convictions insulting womenkind. His convictions seemed true to a large population of men. I believe the majority of men, in the ancient Greek times believed in the undeniable domination of women. Th...

The fates of young womenJocasta's destiny is really cruel in play Oedipus. Jocasta is an integral part of the play, Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. Her actions and thoughts are important to the reader as well as the characters within the play. In this passage there are several themes and significant...

In the characters of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Antigone >and Medea, the ancient Greek playwrights Aeschylus, >Sophocles, and Euripides offer four distinctly different >views of the roles which women played in Greek society. >While women definitely played a role which was subservient >to the one played...