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"Do you think that Euripides intended us to sympathise with Medea?"
... yet again and I am more sympathetic to Jason. Overall I believe that Euripides intended us to not sympathise with Medea all together, but sympathise with her enough, to be shocked in the end when she kills her sons. In ...
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"Jason is detestable - and uncomfortably like us. By contrast Medea, except that she is intensely a person in her own right, might be called Eros (love) incarnate, and because Love and Hate are closely allied, she has become Hate incarnate"
... opinion, Medea expresses far more human emotions than Jason. To me, she expresses vengeance such as every bitter rejected girlfriend dreams of wreaking on their lost love, and takes it to a higher moral (and actual) level. In Medea's mind, ...
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“A high proportion of the most dramatic scenes in the plays of all ages are scenes for precisely two characters. Choose a scene from Anouilh’s “Antigone” and explain what makes it dramatic”
... these two characters. Leading up to the fatal confrontation, there are many aspects of the play, which set the scene of conflict. The opening speech delivered resoundingly from the chorus triggers off the presence of tension in the atmosphere and ...
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“Analyse Anouilh’s use of variety dramatic devices in his presentation of Antigone in the scenes leading up to her arrest”
... due course, brings fit punishment. Due to the fact that the play is based on conflict, the story of the play is revealed over the dispute about the burial of Antigone's brother, Polynices, in which King Creon's views are ...
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'Aeneas is little more than a puppet controlled by the actions of the gods.' Is this a fair assessment of Aeneas in books 1, 2, 4 and 6 of Virgil's Aeneid?
... the path to completing his fate, will in the end determine whether he is a puppet or not. It is important to realise that Fate is a greater power than Gods and Goddesses. The will of Jupiter is not Fate. ...
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'Aeneas Is Little More Than A Puppet Controlled By The Whims Of The Gods' Is This A Fair Assessment Of Aeneas In Books 1,2,4 And 6 Of Virgil's Aeneid?
... that shape Aeneas' life. The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'fate' as, 'the supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events' or 'a power thought to control all events and impossible to resist' or 'a person's destiny'. The Romans agreed with ...
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'Antigone' by Jean Anouilh.
... Leading up to the fatal confrontation, there are many aspects of the play, which set the scene of conflict. The opening speech delivered resoundingly from the chorus triggers off the presence of tension in the atmosphere and can be sensed ...
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'Both Antigone and Creon deserve our sympathy'. Discuss.
... circumstances rendered Oedipus' children outcasts in society, destined to live a life of misery and disgrace. suffering at the hands of fathers misguided actions, not their own. The fact that Antigone's suffering was at the hands of another's misguided actions ...
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'How does the playwrite create and maintain the dramatic force of the play?'
... glory'. Antigone's heroic qualities of excessive pride, only dieing with glory and honor helps create the dramatic force. Conversely, Antigone's struggle against Creon shows the struggle between democracy and autocracy. Creon's attempts to establish autocracy to maintain order and stability, ...
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'How would you direct the confrontation between Creon and Haemon.'
... former king Oedipus with the same loyalty. I would have Creon always above Haemon, again symbolising the authority and also how Creon imposes upon Haemon, I would heighten this effect to the audience by having Creon and some point, preferably ...
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'How would you perform the role of Antigone in her final appearance of the play and what effects would you hope to create for the audience?'
... by ropes held by the soldiers. This entrance will give the impression of sincerity to the audience showing how important the crime she committed was in the eye of the law. The guards will march her up the aisle to ...
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'Pride' is the source of the tragedy in Antigone, discuss.
... flesh for keen eyed carrion birds."'" The imagery that Antigone uses for the ill fate that has befallen her dead brother creates an inhuman, uncivilised picture of Creon in our minds. He is too proud, too rash and he misunderstands ...
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A high proportion of the most dramatic scenes in plays from all eras are scenes written precisely for two characters. Choose such a scene from Anouilh's Antigone and explain what makes it dramatic.
... only one side can triumph; the Parisian audience in 1944 would have seen it as a battle of good versus evil, the protagonist versus the antagonist, the latter of which they would have believed to be Creon, the side of ...
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A high proportion of the most dramatic scenes in the plays of all ages are scenes for precisely two characters - Choose a scene from Anouilh's "Antigone" and explain what makes it dramatic".
... these two characters. Leading up to the fatal confrontation, there are many aspects of the play, which set the scene of conflict. The opening speech delivered resoundingly from the chorus triggers off the presence of tension in the atmosphere and ...
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A high proportion of the most dramatic scenes in the plays of all ages are scenes for precisely two characters. Choose a scene from Anouilh’s “Antigone” and explain what makes it dramatic
... these two characters. Leading up to the fatal confrontation, there are many aspects of the play, which set the scene of conflict. The opening speech delivered resoundingly from the chorus triggers off the presence of tension in the atmosphere and ...
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Action in Antigone
... immediately with the first episode, with intervals given by the choral recitations. The purpose of the chorus is to allow actors to change dresses. The reason for this is that traditional Greek plays had only two or three actors who ...
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Albert Camus created Meursault as the protagonist of The Outsider in order to illustrate the condemnation of a character who refuses to lie even to save himself.
... cigarette and drinks coffee beside her coffin, and sleeps with a new girlfriend the day of her funeral, he does not express any condemnation towards the way that Salamano treats his dog, or the way that Raymond treats his mistress. ...
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Alexander The Great - Analysis of the Film
... Alexander always hated the Persians for what they had done to his country . He had revenge in his blood and that was the beginning of the end for the Persian Empire . An interesting fact about him is that ...
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Analyzing Creons Speech
... the state has his own household. Creon differentiates his boy, prince, to any other boy in Thebes. "A father whose sons yield no such profits", is contrasting with Haemon which will be prepared to fight Creons enemies. Creon quickly and discreetly ...
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Antigonê.
... your side Antigonê: Whose the deed was, Hades and the dead are witnesses; a friend in words is not the friend that I love Ismene: Nay, sister, reject me not, but let me die with you, and duly honor the ...
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Antigone
... proves that the gods are on Antigone's side, Creon changes his mind - but too late. He goes first to bury Polyneices, but Antigone has already hanged herself. When Creon arrives at the tomb, Haemon attacks him and then kills ...
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Antigone
... felt like I could almost associate with his plight. I was really drawn in to the character in my mind and almost actually 'became' the person. This stirred up a large emotional build-up inside me and by using the monologue ...
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Antigone
... there is justice symbolized by Creon, which are man made laws, and there is justice symbolized by Antigone, which are laws of morals and the right thing to do. What makes Antigone more of a tragic "heroine", is the idea of ...
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Antigone
... Jesus was a grave sin. However, his fear of his accusers caused him to err, and to stray from what he believed to be right. Today, many of us have been told to "do what you believe is right, no ...
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ANTIGONE
... probably music. It began as part of a purely religious ceremony. MASK/CHOROUS Plays where performed in day time. The annual drama competitions in Athens spread over several entire days. Actors probably wore little or no make up. Instead they carried masks with ...