Tag: Antigone
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Write your own choral ode: Invoke the gods of Ancient Greece in order to help you and your community with a current issue or movement being faced.
Write your own choral ode: Invoke the gods of Ancient Greece in order to help you and your community with a current issue or movement being faced. Pick your contemporary issue Pick the relevant gods (this may take research – it does not need to be the same gods in Burial at Thebes) Write your…
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Does confinement have a positive, negative, or combination of effects on the mental state of Antigone and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
Directions for Essay 2: Background: “Antigone” was written by the male playwright, Sophocles, around 440 BC, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by the female social reformer and author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, more than a millennium later. Despite these great differences, Sophocles and Gilman compose powerful stories with plots focusing on a female character. According…
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Which play has the most effective tragedy Antigone or Oedipus.
Antigone or Oedipus Which play has the most effective tragedy Antigone or Oedipus.
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How does Anouilh’s Antigone—especially his heroine—relate to these different portrayals of women in French culture? Why does he deliberately challenge the idea of quiet, obedient womanhood the government was advocating?
Antigone Part One: Changing Views of Women in France: Joan of Arc (1412-1431) has long been a national heroine, even before she was officially declared a saint in 1920. For her fellow French countrymen, she’s long been associated with holiness, courage, and patriotism. During the French Revolution in the 1790’s, the new French Republic developed…