Sample Legal Brief Citation: Kreon vs. Antigone Facts: Kreon, uncle of Antigone, who is now the king of Thebes, the very moment he became the ruler he pronounced to follow Thebes’s death rule of burying his own nephews. He proclaimed and was honored to bury Eteokies because he wanted to fight for the city, but he forbids to have a burial ceremony for Polyneikes because Polyneikes was the one that wanted to destroy the city Thebes, and Kreon did not like the fact someone like him wanted to destroy his own city. Antigone in the other hand, is the very opposite of her uncle, she declares to bury her own brother. Antigone does not care what will happen to her. She is eager to break the rules of Thebes for her own brother.
Odysseus is not a hero due to his terrible character. Disloyalty often arises from someone being dishonest and cheating on his/her husband or wife. That is exactly what Odysseus does while he is out at sea. Odysseus spends “A year with Circe” (Homer, 540) having an affair with Circe while his wife shows loyalty and refuses to have affairs with other men and “refuses to remarry.” (Homer, 743) Also Odysseus’s men kill a cattle, and Zeus “punishes them while at sea” (Homer, 678) by a thunderbolt which ends up killing his men. Odysseus sails away without his men and goes to Calypso.
One of the separations in The Odyssey is how Odysseus cannot return to his family in Ithaca because Calypso was keeping him imprisoned for Poseidon because he blinded his son, the Cyclops. Another separation is Odysseus losing all of his loyalty from the people of Ithaca. The first separation in When the Legends Die is when Tom’s dad dies in the avalanche and his mother dies of illnesses. Another would be Tom being separated from the old ways, being forced to learn the new ways of life and forgetting about the old. The final separation is Tom being separated from himself, having everyone else run his life, telling him what to do and how, not giving him his own freedom.
The team heads toward a small lighthouse, in hopes of being rescued. The crashing breaking waves convince the men that even though the shore is in sight, the boat will not make it so they turn back out to sea. Their morale is further trampled when they see people on the beach waving to them, but no one makes a move to help. By the second day they decide to push through the surf as far as they can and then abandon the boat and swim for shore. Before they could make a volunteer exit, a wave upends the boat and dumps them into the icy sea.
To prevent Truman's from discovering his false reality, Christof created a storm that “killed” his father on a fishing trip, which made him scared of the sea. Despite Christof's control, Truman managed to behave in unexpected way, in particular by falling in love with an extra, Sylvia, known to Truman as Lauren instead of Meryl his future planned wife. Though Sylvia is quickly removed from the set and Truman marries Meryl, he continues to secretly long for her. Sylvia becomes part of “free Truman” campaign that fights to free him from the show. Truman should leave, not even finishing the movie, previewing just a little portion of it shows you how wrong it is to have set up events and conversations just to see his reaction.
The broken chain In his novel Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe depicts how British colonisers destroy the traditional Ibo life. One of the pillars of the tribe is the chain of fathers and sons together in life and after death. This is best described towards the end of the story when the protagonist Okonkwo has driven away his son, Nwoye, to the Christian church. Okonkwo is in a state of confusion and fury, afraid that his other five sons will follow Nwoye: "He saw himself and his fathers crowding round the ancestral shrine waiting in vane for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days, and his children the while praying to the white man's god. "(142) This sentence is the core of the narrative.
My Father, my mother, me, and four brothers, and two sisters tried to escape from Vietnam. We started in the night of March 23, 1981 (Wednesday). The boat had a total of forty people in it (including my family), all wanting to escape Vietnam. Our boat planned to sail to Hong Kong. The next day, the ocean had a signal of storm and we had to try to run away from a storm.
In Antigone, by Sophocles, The characterization Creon proves the quote to be true through his irrational decisions and edicts. His abuse of power is shown through Creon by forbidding anyone to give Polyneices an honorable burial and not listening to the prophet Teiresias. When Oedipus, King of Thebes, dies, his throne is left for his two sons Eteocles and Polyneices. When Eteocles refuses to share the throne, the two brothers go to war. Both are killed in the struggle for power.
The main characters of the two stories were both traveling on seas. Jason’s uncle Pelias had supplanted the throne from Jason, which Penelope’s suitors menace to do. They faced many monsters during their quest and they both came upon Scylla, Charybdis, and the Sirens.They were both helped by goddesses and people they don’t know. Both Jason and Odyssey regained their throne at the end of the story. They both took a long period of time to complete their tasks.
The Good and Poor Choices Made By Ulysses In the story The Odyssey, the god Neptune is angry with Ulysses because he did not honor Neptune after his victory. Neptune in turn, cursed Ulysses and was not going to let him return home after the Trojan war. Because of this curse, Ulysses had many adventures both while at sea and when he finally arrived home. Ulysses had to make many choices during these adventures, some were good and some were poor. Through these choices, we see Ulysses was able to learn from what he had done and develop into the hero we know him as today.