In Antigone, how does Antigone defend he actions?
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"Yet the just will say I did rightly...." Antigone.  Antigone is determined to bury her brother because of her loyalty to her family and to the gods. She believes that no mortal, such as Creon, has the right to keep her from her own. Even if Antigone must die during the burial, she will not disgrace the laws of the gods. She believes that she has to please the dead much longer than she has to please the living. \n\nAntigone goes on with the burial of her brother because she claims that Zeus did not make the proclamation, and that a mere mortal cannot override the gods. Her justification for the burial of her brother is that she will not break the laws of the gods. These rules are great unwritten, unshakable traditions and she does not want to face the retribution of the gods. She already knows that she will one day die and she would rather die now than to let her brother rot. Allowing this would be a pain greater than death to her.
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Be supportive. If you attack him (verbally or any other way) you put her in the position of defending him. It happens every time. \n\nThe first two years of a baby's life is the hardest on a marriage (statistically) and when the most divorces happen. I think your hands are tied and all you can do is let it play out, and be there when it ends to pick up the pieces. \n\nWho knows .. maybe they will get some sort of help and be able to work it out. She has to decide for herself.
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Double post...\n\nOrestes, in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile. Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers, Orestes was commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime. With the assistance of Electra and his friend Pylades, who accompanied him in all his adventures, he killed his mother and her lover. After this matricide he was haunted by the Furies (Erinyes) until he reached Athens. He was tried and acquitted by the Areopagus, the tribunal of Athenian judges. Not all the Furies, however, accepted the verdict; and, to win full expiation from his crime, he was told to steal the sacred image of Artemis from Tauris. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned to Greece. It is said that he later married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatized his vengeance and expiation. The story was also used by Sophocles and Euripides.
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I say if he is hangin out with her like best of buddies, then something is going on.I talk to my ex but I don't hang out with him.TEll him how you feel, if he defends her then you don't need him because she will always be in the way.The only reason they should be atleast talking is if there is kids involved, otherwise there should not be any reason for them to be hanging around eachother.Good luck !!
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hmmmm....let me think.\nYou can put the name of Estia.It was a goddess and the protector of Homes in ancient Greece.
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The phrase \n"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is widely attributed to Voltaire, but cannot be found in his writings. With good reason. The phrase was invented by a later author as an epitome of his attitude. It appeared in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre. Chapter VII is devoted to Helvetius (1715-1771), whom she depicts as a kindly, generous person, with a hint of more talent to raise him above mediocrity. He married and settled in the sticks, with a new wife who was unfashionably old (32), and they were happy. This was ended by his tragic aspiration, to earn some small glory for himself as a philosopher.
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All the tragedies which were composed by Shakespeare had the main protagonist modelled with the clay of "Hamartia". According to Aristotle's Poetics, Hamartia is the Tragic Flaw in the personality of the Main protagonists which leads up to a tragic eventuality. \n\nI case of Othello, his character was based upon 3 Flaws. First, He was highly suspicious of the people around him. Second, he was extremely conscious of the fact that he belonged to a base class as he was the Black Moor. Third, he had a tendency to go high on emotions quickly.\n\nIago, the clever manipulator that he was, exploited him on these counts and made him believe that Desdemona had turned amorous and was into an affair with cassio.\n\nFurther, he was helped by the coincidences that happened along the way like his wife finding the Handkerchief of Desdemona.
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Turn the other  cheek. Two wrongs dont make a right. \n\nA quote from President lincoln says "The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him your friend"\n\nif yr religious - Revenge is mine thus saith the Lord. or\nA soft answer turns away wrath\n\nhope it helps
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Because she is teasing Juliet and does not directly tell her what Romeo said, this is why Juliet calls her cruel.\n\nShe is not actually cruel.
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She blew them out of the water - if it was a lie, liberals wouldn't care.\n\nThe truth really destroys every liberal argument that's why they hate her so much.\n\nNotice how liberals don't refute WHAT SHE SAYS, rather they just say she's 'mean-spirited' (liberal code word for dammit, stop exposing liberal lies!)\n\nI like to watch liberals cry about it though - it's really funny :)
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The best defense is your mind.  Stay out of situations where the temper would escalate to violence.  If you use words and your brain, you can get out of almost any bad situation without coming to blows.  \n\nIf you absolutely *have* to defend yourself from imminent physical assault, remember that the law favors even-handed responses, meaning don't defend yourself with a deadly weapon unless you're threatened with one.
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Athena's domain was intellectual activities.  She taught man how to use tools, she taught woman how to spin and weave, she created the science of numbers and taught them to man but never woman.\nShe hated Ares and often defeated him on the battlefield in spite of Ares' strength because of her strategy abilities.\n\nShe was insanely jealous, she turned Arachne into a spider for being a talented weaver.  That's why spiders are arachnids.
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Similarly, in Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey Menolly also suffers from her family's disapproval. According to her sister Sella, Menolly "can't do anything right," from keeping Old Uncle quiet to correctly gutting a packtail (40). Her parents treat her even worse: Yanus doesn't approve of her tuning as it deviates from the norm, and Mavi often seconds her husband's irritation with their youngest daughter's habits. Both adhere to the rigid structure of Half-Circle Sea Hold, and believe that Menolly's childish tendency threatens not only to bring embarrassment upon them when the new Harper arrives, but also to disrupt the pattern of life in the Hold. Yanus worries "How were the young to know that hers weren't the proper songs for their learning?" (11). When he discovers Menolly's accidental tuning and beats her, no one in the Hold shows her any sign of love or support. Even Mavi supports her husband's actions -- upon her discovery, "An expression of anger and disgust crossed her face. 'So you've been the fool after all?'" is all that she can ask her daughter. Menolly's punishment only serves to further isolate her from those in Half-Circle, causing her to retreat inwardly to nurse her wounded spirit. Already considered abnormal for a girl, she has no interest in boys as do her sister and all the other girls who swoon over the new young Harper, nor does she have any close friends, save for Petiron, the late Harper. Additionally, her preoccupation with music elevates her above the rest of the people in the Hold who have little ability with a guitar or flute. Like Faramir, Menolly's internal suffering because of her family's disapproval becomes so acute that it causes her to somewhat rashly leave the protection of the Hold.\n\n\nDragonsong is the story of Menolly, daughter of masterfisher Yanus, Sea Holder of Halfcircle Seahold on Pern. Menolly is a gifted musician who is punished for using her musical talents after Petiron, the Harper who encouraged her talent, dies. Finding life at the fishing community unbearable, she runs away from home. This is a very dangerous thing to do because of intermittent Thread incursions. Menolly takes refuge in a cave where she discovers some fire-lizards, the precursors to the great dragons that are Pern's first defense against Thread. Isolated from civilization in her cave and forced to care for nine baby fire lizards that she impressed, Menolly quickly learns to be resourceful and independent. Freed from the restrictive role forced upon her by Pernese society, she also finds time to indulge in her passion for music. Menolly is out foraging one day when she is caught in Threadfall. She is rescued by a dragonrider who takes her to Benden Weyr. As she is adjusting to the liberal lifestyle of the Weyrfolk at Benden Weyr, she is discovered by Robinton, the Masterharper of Pern. He recognizes her vocation as a musician and offers her a place at the Harper Hall as his apprentice.\n\n\nRead that last part.
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Others have done the Spiderman/Batman scenario over and over again. I'll pass on that, and concentrate on Storm and Hawkwoman.\n\nFirst, I must protest-- you're automatically giving the advantage to Storm, by establishing pre-existing weather conditions that she can use to her advantage (wind, cloud cover, etc.). But let's examine the situation.\n\nWe're looking at Storm and Hawkwoman (not Hawkgirl, the character as originally introduced, but the more realistic version shown in the Hawkworld series.)\n\nStorm and Hawkwoman have not met before. Storm might very naturally try to stir up the winds, causing Hawkwoman to crash to the ground from her flight. This would seem the simplest, most obvious and most effective use of her powers under the circumstances.\n\nBut, what Storm DOESN'T KNOW is that Hawkwoman derives her power of flight from Thanagarian technology, not thrust, lift, drag and gravity! She has anti-gravity. \n\nIf Hawkwoman knows she is being attacked (and I cannot see Storm acting in such a dishonorable manner as to attack without warning), then she can reasonably manipulate her antigravity controls to make it SEEM as though she is plunging toward the ground helplessly, while locating her enemy.\n\nAt the last instant, Hawkwoman can pull out of her dive and fire her submachine gun at Storm. Storm has no defenses against automatic weapons fire. Hawkwoman wins.\n\n20 NOV 06, 1521 hrs, GMT.
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remain loyal to her.  Defending her just gives the jerks a sense of accomplishment because it got to you.  Find ways to emphasize both of your good atributes and time will and I promise it will pass and they'll find someone or something else to pick on.  They are really the insecure ones.  when people pick on others its to keep people from looking to closely at them.
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That's an excellent question that I would like to know the answer to as well. Also, to add to this, why is it when one disagrees with someone is that person automatically accused of hatred? I just disagree - that doesn't mean I hate.
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In the film "The Labyrinth," the heroine comes across two talking doors.  She must choose which door to enter.  The real brain-tickler is the preface that one of the talking doors always tells the truth and the other always lies.\n\nThe heroine poses the question to door A, "If I asked door B, 'Which door leads to my destination?' what would he say?"\n\nIf door A responds, "He would say your destination lies behind me," then she knows the real path is behind door B because no matter who is lying and who is truthful, the lier's response will negate the truthful one's.\n\nIf door A responds, "He would say your destination lies behind himself," then it can be deduced that the path is behind door A, again following this logic of reversal.\n\nSo, whatever response either door gives will always be incorrect and the heroine should choose the other door.