Tarsus Act 2 Analysis

5. The speeches of the Chorus and Choragus interrupt the action of the play to describe the battle to the audience. What do these city

Throughout Pericles, Prince of Tyre, there exists a blatant dichotomy between good and evil. The play lacks moral ambiguity within many of the central characters. One can recognize this dichotomy by analyzing the utilization of foils in Pericles. Pericles incorporates obviously corrupt characters that contrast with virtuous counterparts. For instance, in two analogous instances Pericles travels to a new city, attempting to court a princess.

So, just a quick introduction to the play. The key characters are HECUBA who was the Queen of Troy and wife of the Trojan King Priam, THE GHOST OF POLYDORUS who was the son of Hecuba and Priam, POLYXENA who was their daughter, POLYMESTOR who was the King of the Thrace and was also married to Priam’s eldest daughter, ODYSSEUS, who as we know was a Greek Homeric hero and AGAMEMNON who was the Greek leader.

Overall, this essay is going to be directed towards informing the readers about all the different foreshadowing events that occur during the play. For example, there are subtle hints in every known conflict and plot twist. Some are very clear, while others take a few times of reading to realize. To make things easier, chronological order would be most helpful.

During the play it was broken into five short stories making it difficult to follows at times. This play had an Episodic structure, tracking characters through five different eras’. This play was difficult to find a Genre, the most it identified with was a Tragicomedy. The use of each Antigone

The main focus of the play is Creon, the brother of Oedipus and next in line for the throne. Throughout the play, we can see the complexity that Creon must navigate in this time of struggle. When he is faced with what to do with his two nephews, Eteocles and Polyneices who died fighting each other in battle, he must decide whether or not Polyneices, the traitor, should be buried in honor or left to rot. Wishing to maintain his hold on the government, Creon proclaims that, “As long as I am

 The most complex and compelling character in the three plays is Clytaemnestra.  Clytaemnestra is consumed with thoughts of revenge.  She seeks vengeance on Agamemnon for the loss of their daughter, Iphigeneia whose life was forfeited in order to appease the goddess Artemis so that Agamemnon's troops would be allowed passage to the Trojan shore. Clytaemnestra

The main characters in Sophocles’ drama, Antigone, are Antigone herself, the play’s tragic heroine and Antigone’s uncle and King of Thebes, Creon. Both characters are ruled by powerful motivations and beliefs; however, they differ from one character to the next.

Antigone is a play that was written in ancient Greece by the playwright Sophocles. It is the third play in a trilogy of tragedies about the city-state of Thebes, revolving around Oedipus Rex. Antigone starts the day after a civil war fought between the two sons of Oedipus Rex after his death. The civil war ended in death for both brothers, so their uncle, Creon, assumed the role of King of Thebes. The main conflict of the play begins when Creon gives one brother, Eteocles, a burial with honors, but passes a law forbidding a burial for the other brother, Polyneices with the penalty of death. One of the sisters of Eteocles and Polyneices, Antigone disagrees with this law, and decides to bury Polyneices, resulting in Creon sentencing Antigone to death. A conflict emerges between Antigone and Creon, who appear to be opposites. However, despite Antigone and Creon’s different stances on law, they are ultimately more similar than different because of their shared value of loyalty and their shared characteristic, hubris.

Act 3 scene 1 depicts the death of two significant characters (Mercutio and Tybalt), many important plot points take place throughout the second half of the scene (such as Romeos

Antigone, written by the Athenian Sophocles, is about a woman named Antigone who lives in a city named Thebes. The play’s plot is based on her attempt to successfully bury her brother Polynices whom perished in a battle with his brother that also assumed the role of

and the law is only here to benefit him and to control the people. It

scene in the play. Act 3 scenes 1 happens in the middle of the play,

Aeschylus’ drama, Agamemnon, relates the story of a king’s downfall at the hands of his queen. Agamemnon, the king and the play’s namesake, is introduced almost halfway through the production. His first appearance creates a scene fraught with characterization, of himself and others around him, and symbolism. The scene and Aeschylus’ techniques allow interpretations concerning the king’s own hubris being his destruction. The introduction of Agamemnon portrays the chariot as his ability to identify his own pride as a flaw, the tapestries as his willing acceptance of his hubris, and Cassandra’s movements as her acceptance of her fate.

The movie starts out with a back story otherwise known as the exposition that tells the story of Antigone’s father. Her dads name was Oedipus and he was the king of Thebes. When he was younger his mother sent him to an oracle that told him his future. The oracle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, his mother shipped him off to the mountains in the middle of nowhere. While alone and abandoned he was found and raised by a women and a man. When he found out his destiny he left to find his real parents in Thebes. When he got their he got into an argument with a “stranger,” and killed him. He then got to the kingdom and fought a sphinx to win the right to rule Thebes and the hand in marriage of the widowed queen. Little did he know the widowed queen he married was his mother. Then he spent years trying to figure out who killed the king only to find that he killed the king. Then his mother/wife realized she married her son and hung herself. As a result, he took two needles and stabbed his eyes. Oedipus and his mother had four children together; Eteocles, Ismene, Antigone, and Polyneices. After the king Oedipus dies Eteocles seized the thrown. Polyneices started a war against Eteocles and they both died in battle. Now the new king of Thebes was Creon and Antigone was to marry his son Haemon. Antigone wanted to bury her brother Polyneices but the new king Creon forbid anyone from burying the body. The story then starts and begins to explain the