literary criticism on antigone?
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I have just ploughed my way through that lot, was it a question? I don't think so!\nWhatever it was (unless you are an incest freak)!it was almost as boring as reading quotes from the so called Holy books, are there no good cartoons on the tv you could be watching.\nI'll bet you are right into the Egyptian Pharaohs marriages and sexual background.\nI still haven't worked out what the question is, and I'm almost falling asleep trying to work it out, so OK I give up, and I really don't want to know!
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I've put a link below to an article about Graves that discusses some of his preoccupations and personal mythology. Read the paragraphs just before the mention of the poem to get an idea of what the writer thinks of Graves's motivation. \n\nBecause of the strong rhetoric in the first line - something about there being one story and one story only (I don't have the text in front of me right now), one is inclined to think that WHATEVER the story is behind the poem is a universal one, and quite possibly "the story of Graves's life." \n\nPoems are never only autobiographical, though. Nor are their symbols always completely coherent and discernible. \n\nGood luck.\n\n[By the way, I didn't copy from the answer above - which is a very good one - it's just a coincidence that we were looking in the same place. The other answerer posted 59 seconds before I got there, but after I'd started writing.]
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The story of Pyramus and Thisbe from Greek Mythology:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pyramusthisbe.htm\n\nThe story is made fun of as the play within the Shakespeare play "Midsummer Night's Dream"
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The Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles. The three plays are Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus of Colonus.\n\nThese are by far the most famous Greek plays. and no wonder; it's plot and themes behind it are so complex and emotional.\n\nOther plays include "Achilles" by Aeschylus and "Orya" by Epicharmus
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http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-roots/, that is not free, 7.99$, but that's completely worth it. \nIncludes chapter summaries, character analysis, themes, style, historical context, critical overview (essays), criticism, media adaptations, compare and contrast, topics for further study, and more. Hope, that'll help you :)
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I hope this will help. Check up on  Emma Donoghue.\nHer site lists many of Her works and gives sites where they can be purchased.\nI believe that this is her site..\nhttp://www.emmadonoghue.com\nAs a special favor, could you let me  know how you get on ?\nNot all her stories are strictly lesbian but 2 of my favorites are 'What Sappho Would have Said" and " The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits|.\nThank heaven for a sensible question. Bless you love. Rose P.
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Pretty much the quote states that even the more powerful people in the world make mistakes and aren't always correct in their ways of solving problems.  And that a truly good person would be able to see that they're way isn't the right way and will allow other solutions to the problem, as long as the problem gets resolved peacefully.  And that the worst thing a person can do is be too proud to take someone else's advice.  In Antigone, her father I believe (it's been a while since I read this) is so set in his ways and believing he's right, that he won't see things from Antigone's point of view.  Due to his pride, it results in his daughter's death (I'm pretty sure she dies in this), which is not an affective solution to the problem.  I'm sorry I can't remember quotes and things of that sort.  But I hope I put you on the right track!  Good luck!
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Look - it's a poem about Persephone - the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. If there's an analysis on the web somewhere, you can find it with a google search. Ultimately though, you should be writing your own analysis, shouldn't you? Unless there is the highly unlikely possibility that your teacher wants you to analyze an analysis.
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Most of the 'myth' we have of Antigone is from Sophocles' play by the same name.  In fact, it seems that perhaps Sophocles invented her and her name.  She does not appear in any other Greek literature before him.\n\nFor a synopsis of her story see the Perseus link below.\n\nFor a very detailed discussion of her and her myth (as well as any others, consult T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (usually 2 vols, but 1 vol available).\n\n\nThomas Talboy, PhD, Director\nUbiquity International, LLC\nExperience. Explore. Embrace the World.(TM)\nhttp://www.ubiquityinternational.com
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Here are two very good articles.  Be sure to quote your sources!\n\n"Another poem of hers that I love, "The Soul has Bandaged moments," concludes, referring to moments too horrible and personal to tell to just anybody, "These, are not brayed of Tongue." Perhaps the meaning is: "These ought not to be brayed of tongue," given that in a number of poems she seems to do just that. For a poet to conceive images and phrases that can be said to "bray," which are equivalents of the harsh, grating, dissonant sounds made by donkeys, in order to say what is too terrible to be said, would be like a singer attempting sounds the human voice cannot make without risk to itself and could possibly damage the psyche permanently."\n\n\n------------------------\n"Many of human experiences can fit well into Emily Dickinson's poem. Living a life as rich and colorful in its spiritual detail and as desperately sensitive to meaning and context, it was as quiet in its conduct as it was unremarkable in its demographics. She lived in Amherst, Massachusetts and composed a great deal of terse poetry, dense with metaphor about the human experience, and about coping and managing in the loneliness of her isolation. \nThere are two internal figures here, one godly one demonic, vying to conquer the soul. She is not only bandaged because of some hurtful wound but also bandaged as enslaved or caught up in the pain. A classic battle between good an evil. She begins the first stanza from within herself frightened by her fear, then imagines her fear personified in the second verse as some entity that has taken her captive; the self is numb to itself. By the third stanza, as she does so brilliantly well, she uses nature as metaphor in her landsacpe with a happy moment of escape; the 'bee who swings upon the hours' Emily collects the 'fuzz ordained' only to be caught again by shackling and stapled fears in the fifth stanza. A wonderful contrast of the human condition; a way of putting two elements side by side using one to highlight the other then finally she sums it all up with a compressed, hard, and blazingly vivid stanza she laments in this tiny poem, they are to "not brayed of Tongue" perhaps because to her these moments are too horrible and personal to tell to just anybody. \n\nBy using the context of the history of ideas from Calvinism to Transcendentalism she shows us the tension between the affirmative and the negative which is at the core of her work as a writer. By 1862, she had written nearly half of her work and at his time suffered a great loss. "I had a terror," she told Higginson her mentor and friend, "I could tell to none." It easy to understand her detachment and the desire for silence, a seeking for understanding. \n\nLess than a dozen of Dickinson's poems were printed during her lifetime -- some without her permission, some were full of radical "improvements" "Publication - is the auction of the mind..." she noted, with haughty resentment, maybe in some way trying to comfort herself, and she tied her poems in bundles and put them in a drawer."
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Most heros of greek tragedy are anti-heros in that sense.  They are human. They let their weaknesses take lead in their lives and then suffer for that.
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What do u think????\nTell me...\nThe whole thing was initiated because of a woman, u could say that it was an excuse but it was the wick that begining the fire.\nThe rest is part legend part history.\nThanks to Homero for the wonderfuls  "Odyssey" and "Iliada".
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Engraved on the pedestal below the statue:\n\n"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,\nWith conquering limbs astride from land to land;\nHere at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand\nA might woman with a torch, whose flame\nIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name\nMother of Exiles.  From her beacon-hand\nGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command\nThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.\n'Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she\nWith silent lips.  'Give me your tired, your poor,\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!"\n\nNot exactly the spirit behind the recently passed House bill on immigration, is it?  The Senate bill is much closer.
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Do a biography of Pythagoroas.
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Interesting, though I would like to see it taken further (as to proofs, etc.).  If you liked that book, try reading "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar."  Sorry, I can't remember the name of the woman who wrote it.
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well, I'm not sure what you mean about "literature" but try a book called "Mosaicos"\n\nhope it helped.
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