Literature

PLEASE USE A INTRODUCTION BODY AND A CONCLUSION !!!!

ASSIGNED READING

Antigone (Sophocles)

PROMPT

Answer all of the questions below:

• Analyze Creon’s character psychologically. What personal characteristics lead to the decisions that he makes?
• Explain Antigone’s most important characteristics? Is she prideful and reckless? Is she heroic? Is she an innocent victim of tyranny? Is she a martyr? Is she a masochist? An idealist? A combination of these traits?
• What does the play say about absolute power? 
• What does the play say about obligations to family and obligations to authority? 

REQUIREMENTS

• Your response to each question should include 1-2 quotations from each reading.
• Include in-text citations for each quotation in MLA style.
• Your submission should be in formal essay format: Introduction, body, conclusion. For information on essay format and organizing your ideas, visit:

• All reading responses should be 3-4 typed, double-spaced pages.
• You will be graded on critical thinking, support, clarity/organization, language and MLA style (see Reading Response rubric for details).

MLA Style: ALL assignments must be submitted in proper MLA form, including in-text citations and a Works Cited page.  For help with MLA style guidelines, visit the Purdue OWL website and search for MLA: .

Formal Language and Tone: Your paper must be written in 3rd person, present tense, formal tone. Do not use first person (we, us, our) or second person (you, your, you’re), or "one" (one = you; who/what is "one"?). Unless a professor specifies otherwise, college-level papers should always be written in 3rd person, present tense, formal tone. For help with this, visit:  

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