English 1A Medea Journal Entry Euripidies’ Medea is a tragic Greek play in which the main character Medea takes horrible revenge on her husband for leaving her to marry a princess. I really liked how modern a play Medea must have been for its time. Most of Greek literature and culture is centered on masculinity but in Medea we see a woman who although crazy stands up for herself in a male dominated world. As the play progresses her blind rage transforms Medea from a helpless victim, to crazed child killer. Medea is introduced as a miserable ranting wreck.
Kreon thinks that the person who caused all of this is Antigone. He thinks that Antigone caused this because it was her fault that that they had an argument in the first place about burying Polyneices. Kreon might think that of Antigone as his nemesis because she causes problems to his family and his empire. He deals with Antigone by slaving her and putting her into in a cave until she starved to death. “Be happy, You are living; but my soul died long ago, to be useful among the death”(pg.43).this are Antigones words which show she wanted to hang herself to be with her
“Well if you had done it my way we wouldn’t be in this mess now would we?” said Daisy. “Well I don’t think we could have pulled off staging a suicide on such short notice, do you?” said Tom. “Well, we could have, but it would have been messy.” said Tom. “Let’s get back to the real issue here! Who the hell is on our tails?” said Wilson “It’s Nick…” said Gatsby solemnly.
This means that the gods had key roles in the fates of mankind, an idea which is hinted heavily upon during the course of the play. The title character of Aeschylus’ production, Agamemnon, faces various challenges which ultimately end rather poorly with Clytaemnestra organising his assassination. It could be argued that this was destined to happen from the very beginning of the sequence of events due to the family curse that circles his house. Atreus’s house was known for the curse that seemed to pass down through the generations of his sons which involved terrible things, ie murder happening between the children and the fathers. Atreus himself was involved in the tragedy in which he murdered his brother’s children and served them up as a dish to eat.
Character Analysis Till We Have Faces, written by C.S. Lewis, is a novel based on the Greek legend of Psyche and Cupid. The main character and narrator, Orual, retells her life from when she was young to her present age. In the story she tells of how being the ugly sister compared her two beautiful sisters, Redival and Psyche, has impacted her life substantially. Psyche was the major reason behind Orual’s actions because Orual was jealous that everyone noticed Psyche and never acknowledged her, and this would ultimately lead to the sacrificing of Psyche to the mountain god, Ungit.
This incident could have been prevented if Friar Lawrence would have refused to marry Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. He should have helped Juliet rather than supplying the potion. Lastly, Friar Lawrence should have taken responsibility by staying with Juliet in the tomb. It is highly probable that if the Friar had stayed with Juliet, she would not have taken her life. As you can see, your Honor, this was a case of cause and effect.
A tragic flaw is a flaw in a character that is the cause of a downfall of the tragic hero in a tragedy. A great example of an awesome tragic hero is Antigone in Sophocles play “Antigone.” In “Antigone” Antigone s a girl whose uncle (Creon) is king. Her brother, Polynecies, has died in a war and King Creon made a decree that no one should bury him. Well, Antigone disobeys Creon and buries her brother. She says that she did it for a higher cause.
As an actor preparing for the role of Electra, what aspects of her character would you emphasise in creating the final performance? In your answer you should refer to three key scenes in which the character appears. Electra is an ancient Greek play by Sophocles. The play opens with Orestes, Electra’s brother, deciding to pretend he is dead in order to take revenge for his father, Agamemnon’s, death. Electra fights with her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother’s lover, Aegisthus, because she feels betrayed by them as they killed her father.
In his play Antigone, Sophocles tells about the actions of Antigone, a princess, who disobeys the civil law in the city of Thebes in order to provide a proper burial for her deceased brother, Polyneices. For this, she is sentenced to death by Creon, her uncle and king of the land. Creon believes that Polyneices did not deserve a proper burial due to the fact he turned on his city and therefore punishes Antigone for her actions. Creon and Antigone both face severe consequences regarding the law they follow, however Antigone is focused on life after death while Creon focuses only on his needs and wants. The main conflict arises when Antigone decides to go against civil law and bury her deceased brother.
Cleopatra lost the war badly, because of this; Octavian declared that she will be treated like a slave in her own country. She had memories of her sister, Arsinoe, being humiliated in this way and decided not to live like this anymore. Cleopatra had an asp, which was an Egyptian cobra (highly poisonous), brought to her hidden in a basket of figs. She died on August 12, 30 BC at the age of 39. Cleopatra achieved her dying wish, to not be forgotten.