Antigone believes that without burying her brother he will not have a good after-life. Antigone even goes as far as burying him twice. Antigone is more admirable in that she is not selfish. She cared for her brother so much that she would go through all this trouble to give him a good after-life. She wanted to marry Haimon but sacrificed this to bury her brother.
She will be the man here” (519). This quote explains Kreon’s irritation on Antigone. The very moment Antigone buries her be loving brother’s body Kreon wants to take action with killing her because she disobeyed his law also Antigone’s sister, Ismene, because Kreon believes she was part of it too. Kreon believes if he does not kill Antigone he will no longer be one of the best rulers that people will look up too. This quote is important because it explains how Kreon begins to commit hubris.
Maya Angelou grew up in a time when there was many racial conflicts and segregation particularly against African Americans. In the nineteenth chapter of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings titled “Champions of the World” , Angelou indirectly addresses the conflicting relations between whites and African Americans. Angelou most notably describes these relations in paragraphs 16, 17 and 28. In paragraphs 16 and 17, Angelou describes the people’s reactions to the way the fight between Joe Louis and Carnera was going. Joe Louis, who was representing-as she describes-all the Negroes around the world, was losing.
Alex Dunham WRA 125 Professor Patrick LeBeau 23 September 2004 Rhetorical Analysis of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a brilliant example of a rhetorical essay. From 1955 to 1968, in Southern America, black people were harshly segregated and discriminated against. Dr King used his methods of nonviolent civil disobedience to rally the oppressed negro community and try to show America that segregation is wrong and could no longer be stood for. King wrote the letter to southern clergyman from a Birmingham jail, where he was sent after a peaceful parade to stop segregation. Authorities charged him with lacking the possession of a parade permit.
The readers are saddened because Antigone should not have died and she should be the queen of the kingdom instead of Creon. Even though Antigone dies in the end of the play, she does something important and meaningful before she dies. Her death is not a complete loss because she buried her brother and cleaned her conscience before she went to the underworld. "I should have praise and honor for what I have done." Creon tries to make things right in the end because the oracle tells him what he had done and the gods would be mad at him but is too
It shows how racism caused so many unjustly crimes towards the African American race. According to Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders, they were formed because of the desegregation laws in the south to start a national movement. The six members of whites and blacks were sent out on public transportation together to violate segregation laws in the south. Genevieve Houghton, member of the Freedom Rider, stated they were sent on the Greyhound bus to locate segregation and desegregation in the south as a two week trip. John Lewis, member of the Freedom Rider, also stated
The final image of Sutpen given by Rosa is that some black man kills him on his plantation. Rosa also asks Quentin to come with her to the old Sutpen mansion, because she thinks someone is hiding out there. Continuing with his stream of consciousness technique, Faulkner has Mr. Compson tell the next few chapters through his memories of Thomas Sutpen. Sutpen was in the Cival War with General Compson, and as the stories have been passed down to Mr. Compson, he is passing the story now to Quentin. In Mr. Copsons version, I learned of Sutpens marriage disaster, his immediate family,his illegitimate child with a slave, and a previous marriage to a woman who was 1/8 black, who bears Sutpen a son, which is his dream, but also his downfall.
Mark Twain’s novel, Huckleberry Finn, is the tale of a boy from antebellum Missouri who left the comforts of civilized society and ran off with a fugitive slave to the Free States. Twain wrote this piece not long after the Civil War’s end; however he set it before the war to fully illustrate one of his major themes. The American perception of race before the War, and especially in the south, was blurred by many flawed biases. Mark Twain illustrated this theme throughout his work, with his main point being that nobody in this time and place was free from the effects of racism. Even his most sympathetic white characters found it completely natural to regard blacks differently, for the racist preconceptions were everywhere and they permeated and changed the thinking of everyone in their path.
In the play “Antigone” written by Sophocles, it is clear that both family and authority are honoured in many different ways. Both Antigone and Haemon honor family while Creon and Ismene honor authority. Antigone values her family as she fights against the law to bury her unburied brother, Haemon shares his thoughts with his father and also through his love for his bride shows family honor. Creon shows arrogant thoughts towards the ideas of family honor when he creates the law that his nephew should not be buried, Ismene shows strong honor to authority as she does not help her sister bury and honor her brother. Throughout this play Sophocles contrasts family vs authority which diminishes and changes relationships between family members and characters.
When you are ignorant, you choose to not recognize that there is wrong in the world or that wrong is being done to you. This proverb can be clearly illustrated in Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ and the story of ‘Oedipus the King’. In the story of ‘Oedipus the king’, it is prophesized that Oedipus would kill his father and marries his mother. If Oedipus had remained oblivious of the ancient prophecy he would not have ultimately stabbed out his own eyes. And imposed on himself the penalty of exile.