The betrayal of Polynieces causes his sister, Antigone, to start another long line of betrayal throughout the rest of the play. Antigone begins planning her betrayal against Creon and her justice against her brother when she goes to her sister, Ismene, for help. “You must decide whether you will help me or not.” (Line 30, Pg 774). Ismene is a coward and claims she cannot help Antigone, “But I have no strength to break laws that were made for the public good.” (Line 66, Pg 774). The fact that Antigone is now alone is this process does not slow her down at all; not even after Ismene warns her that the consequence of her actions could be death.
But Ismene refuses to help her sister, fearing the death penalty installed by Creon. Therefor Antigone decided that she must go and bury her brother herself. As the play continues, a sentry tells Creon that Polynecies body has been buried. Furious, Creon demands that the culprit be found, the sentry then returns with Antigone. Creon questions her, and Antigone does not deny that she buried Polynecies.
Lady Capulet comes to see if Juliet is awake. She ask if Juliet will cry for her about it. Juliet says she will for a great loss. Lady said that the weeping is not for his death as long as the man who killed him is still out there. Juliet to get her mother not knowing about Romeo talks against him.
Loyalty: The Ultimate Flaw In the Greek play Antigone, readers debate whether Antigone expresses hubris or heroic loyalty. Sophocles appoints Antigone- a female figure to carry out stereotypical male roles, expected to be incapable of women in Thebes. In no special sequence, Antigone’s loyalty in the act to bury her brother Polyneices, acknowledgment to the gods, civil disobedience in acting against the king’s laws, and her everlasting issue with feminism in her Patriarchal Society, encourages her to battle every circumstance that comes her way. As Antigone conquers each of these rival forces, she demonstrates loyal behavior to the gods while she becomes her deceased brother’s personal hero. In Antigone’s defense, loyalty cannot be granted overnight, but overtime or even in a full life’s span.
Nancy Mairs is a “cripple”. It is not me being rude by calling her that, but rather me calling her what she prefers to call herself for personal reasons. Using a specific tone Mairs presents herself as a confident woman that has faced her challenges with an optimistic reality. Mairs is a woman who knows what she wants and her unwavering view on her condition is evident in the passage. She is aware of the fact that many people are uncomfortable with the word “cripple”, but “wants them to wince”.
Now guaranteed a home in Athens, Medea has cleared all obstacles to completing her revenge, a plan which grows to include the murder of her own children; the pain their loss will cause her does not outweigh the satisfaction she will feel in making Jason suffer. Medea then pretends to sympathize with Jason and offers his wife the gifts of a crown and robe. Allegedly, the gifts are meant to convince Glauce to ask her father to allow the children to stay in Corinth. The crown and robe are actually poisoned, however, and their delivery causes Glauce's death. Seeing his daughter withered
As Lysistrata waits for the women of neighboring Sparta, Thebes and the surrounding areas to arrive she curses the weakness of women and questions why women have to be the weaker sex. Lysistrata asks the women of Athens to refrain from sex with their husbands in order to sexually starve their husbands into submission, forcing them to end the war. Once the women from the surrounding areas finally got together Lysistrata asked the women to swear an oath that they would withhold sex from their husbands until both sides of the conflict signed a treaty of peace. In Lysistrata there are two major factions, each of the factions is led by an elder called a Koryphaios, the choruses of Old Men and Old Women. A major comical battle takes place between the two factions, the men and the women.
Her love of Othello is constant throughout the play and her goodness is never doubted. However the irony being that the goodness she possesses leads to her own downfall, as she relentlessly attempts to fix the rift between Cassio and Othello, she provides the weapons to allow doubt fester in her husband’s mind, which is masterfully exploited by Iago. When she answered “Nobody, I myself. Farewell. / Commend me to my kind lord.
Before his death, Oedipus had blinded himself, adding to the tragedy. However, Antigone's own tragedy was still unfolding. Through her proud and unrelenting character, Antigone is determined to give her brother a rightful burial, despite Creon's edict. At first Antigone seeks the help of her sister, Ismene, but when she realizes the fear and submissive attitude Ismene possesses, Antigone disregards it as even an option, another example of perhaps Antigone's tragic flaw, her own arrogance. As the tale continues, Antigone does indeed bury her brother, but is caught by Creon.
MEDEA: Yes, it is by doing so that I shall hurt my husband most. CHORUS: But no woman would then know greater misery. MEDEA: So be it!” (Euripides, Lines 16 -19, p72) The audience’s attitude towards Medea will have changed at this moment, as the fact of killing her own children was the most outrageous part of this play. It is also at this point that she distances herself from the audience and most importantly, any