Polyneices was an outcast at the time, he was thrown outside the city to rot a die without a burial. Antigone was furious that Polyneices was not buried properly so she took the act upon herself. Ismene did not agree to help because their Uncle Creon, the king, had passed a law that whoever buried him would be stoned to death. Antigone continued with her plan and covered her brother in dust, which was just enough to set his soul to rest so that he could go to the underworld. A Sentury came to Creon to report
most works, such as Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Sophocles optimizes the traditional Greek tragic style, with each of the key elements is their correct place and format. In contrast, Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy mixes and changes the order and formulaic structure of the tragedy; all the traditional elements are there just recreated in a new and previously unthought of way. While the traditional structure such as used in Oedipus Rex is altered
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin