Sophocles' Antigone, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
The representative population of a community is not comfortable when confronted by an individual who defies the laws that bind them. Whether or not the laws or the powers behind them are just, the populace must deal with any challenge to their authority. In some cases, the community, fearful of a powerful regime, will side with that power and avoid the risks associated with rebellion. Others find the tyranny too unjust to stand idly by and, risking their lives, join with other defiant individuals against it.
The group of characters named as Chorus in both Sophocles' Antigone and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound
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Anouilh does not alter the fundamental structure of Sophocles play. Rather, he makes the familiar Antigone into a tool for subtly encouraging his intended audience in Vichy France to not stand passively as a chorus "who sit or stand here, looking at [Antigone], not in the least upset ourselves- for we are not doomed to die tonight" (3). The story is presented by Chorus as immutable and this point is brought up over and over until it is apparent that the only way to change the ending is for the community to stand fast with, in the case of the French, those who would rebel against the occupation and fight the seemingly insurmountable …show more content…
His opening lines remove himself from the action and place him somewhere between the audience and the characters: "Well, here we are. These people are about to act out for you the story of Antigone" (3). By grouping the audience with himself, however, he co-opts them into his position as a witnessing community member who allows the defiant Antigone to play her part:
...she is going to die. Antigone is young. She would much rather live than die. But there is no help for it. When your name is Antigone, there is only one part you can play; and she will have to play hers until the end. (3)
Knowing that her youthful rebellion will result in her death, they can only join Chorus in watching the affair. As members of the community, they must inevitably share some guilt for her
Brad Moore, a famous athlete once said, “Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn’t taste so bad.” In Sophocles’ well known Greek tragedy, Antigone, the main character undergoes immense character development. Antigone transforms from being stubborn and underestimated to courageous and open-minded. In reality, it is Antigone’s insular persistence that leads to her ultimate decline in the play as well as others around her. After the death of her two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, Creon becomes the new ruler of Thebes. With this, he grants Eteocles an honorable funeral service for his brave fighting. Claiming that Polynices was a traitor, he shows complete refusal to grant Polynices a respectable and worthy service. Clearly disagreeing with Creon’s inexcusable demands, Antigone declares she will bury Polynices herself so that his soul can be at peace. Entirely aware of the consequences and dangers of this action, which include death, she goes forward vowing her love for her family. Antigone shows strength and determination towards her brother. However, her growing sense of pride leads to her downfall as she sacrifices everything for her family. Antigone develops into an admirable character in which she portrays her defiance and courage, pride and open mindedness, and sense of moral righteousness to show vital character growth as the play progresses.
The Greek Chorus is very similar to America's news channels because it brings the people the news in a way that they can understand it. The play Antigone by Sophocles is a tragic drama structured around the argument between a king and two sisters about the burial of their brother. Antigone can be compared to the conflict surrounding granting illegal immigrants amnesty. The Chorus is a group of people who provide background information, interpret the information, and relate it to human nature. The Chorus in Antigone tells the pros and cons of both sides of the story and adds important information needed to fully understand the conflict. The Greek Chorus serves the same functions as American news channels in the twenty-first century.
Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The
In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, the main character uses rhetoric to effectively persuade her audiences to sympathize with her. In the play, Antigone’s brother, Polyneices, dies a traitor to the Theban people. The king, Creon, decrees that no one is to bury the traitor despite the necessity of burial for proper passing into the afterlife. Believing that Creon’s decree is unjust, Antigone buries her brother. When she is brought to the king, Antigone uses this speech in defense of her actions. In the speech, she uses allusion, diction, and particular sentence structure to increase the effectiveness of her argument.
The chorus being a part of the audience allowed for the audience to have a more direct link between what was occurring in the play. However, the chorus itself added a comedic and introspective aspect into the play. For example, the chorus seemed to be one of the few characters that were aware of the situation that the characters were in and the fate of each one. An example of the comedic effect that the chorus adds is when he questions Antigone about whether she remembers doing the entire play with a door strapped on her back because her father wanted her to. This comedic effect seems to lighten the mood during an intense monologue that Antigone is about to give, which addresses the ignorance of Kreon. Also, the wedding between Antigone and Haimon is another high point of the play as all the characters, including Kreon and Eurydike, are in a moment of contempt during the marriage. The low points of the play include Kreon’s realization of his actions and the suicide of Antigone. Both Kreon’s realization and Antigone’s suicide creates a cathartic moment in the audience, as those watching give pity to Kreon and Antigone for dealing with a less than ideal situation. The scene that surprised me the most is the random musical number that was added intermittently in the play. For example, the dancing scene surprised me as due to the randomness in the scene. I would not expect a dance
After the American Revolution, drinking was on the rise. To combat this, a number of societies were organized as part of a new Temperance movement which attempted to dissuade people from becoming intoxicated. At first, these organizations pushed moderation, but after several decades, the movement's focus changed to complete prohibition of alcohol consumption. (Brayton)
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Some examples which are given are, where cultures who integrate drinking as religious rites and customs, or where regulated traditional reasons are present, and self-control, sociability and knowing when enough is enough is part of manly pride, alcohol problems are low (Humphrey, Schmalleger, 2012). Therefore, integration of drinking into
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The strengths and weaknesses of the Athenian character traits laid out in the “Funeral Oration” are exemplified by the character of Creon in Sophocles’ Antigone, and suggest that Athenians held certain concerns in the Golden Age of their empire.
...egaining her husband and all of the loss of freedom her marriage entails. The line establishes that Louise's heart condition is more of a metaphor for her emotional state than a medical reality.” (Koloski) It is ironic that she accepts the death of her husband and is joyous and free, and then he ends up being alive after she walks out of the room with a sense of power. The ending of The Story of an hour by Kate Chopin implies that maybe the only true resolution of conflict is in death.
Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour.” Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Eds. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson, 2010. 261-263. Print.
Moreover, the global imbalances also make capital flowing incorrectly, from developing countries to advanced countries, from advanced countries to other advanced countries. This makes developing countries with fast productivity growth show capital outflows and vice versa, leads to the surplus of developing...