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…You've seen trees by a raging winter torrent, how many sway with the flood and salvage every twig, but not the stubborn -- they're ripped out, roots and all. Bend or break. (Sophocles, Antigone, p. 811) Creon is angered at the disobedience…

…such as Oedipus Rex and The Wasps. Playwrights such as Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were capable of 'enthralling their audiences and moving them to strong emotions- apprehension, compassion, sorrow' and joy (EXTENDED STUDY: MASK). But it was their use…

…1148, Sophocles Electra 531) Plus, Clytaemnestra hears that Agamemnon is bringing back with him a concubine who was said to be a prophetess. Agamemnon and Cassandra enter the stage in a great parade. The parade is important to visualise…

…of the glories of our world. The prominent psychologist Sigmund Freud, from the timeless stories of Sophocles developed the best-known theory of modern psychology, the Oedipus complex. This, of course is only one of the countless ways that Greek drama has impacted…

…CREONS FATAL DECISION People of power such as kings are often forced to chose between family and law. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, King Creon has to make such a decision. He issues the edict to outlaw the burial of his traitor nephew, Poleneices…

…of government under the Athenian citizen Pericles; the writings of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; and the origin of the philosophical schools of Plato and Socrates. In the late 5th century, the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta…

…Antigone; The Tragic Hero Antigone is a classic work that never ceases to be analyzed by critics and students around the world. The debate over who is the real tragic hero of Sophocles’ play Antigone is a topic that is heavily discussed…

…around us? In Sophocles’ play, as in other works we have read thus far, we encounter an obviously important notion, the role played by fate or the fates. The emphasis placed on these words (and personalities) gives the stories a vision of life which one…

…A bad attitude causes most fights between people. People showing disrespect by saying hurtful or crazy words without thinking them through upsets almost everyone. In the play, Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, Oedipus was trying to find…

…it allows readers to know that tragedies still do exist. After hundreds of years of classical masterpieces from Shakespeare and Sophocles, “it is time… that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place…