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Classics
Discuss whether Antigone is a
psychological or political drama
...Antigon is the main character in the classical play by
Sophocles. A woman and a fighter she is a unique heroine of
those ancient times. She is a strong personality who is
pushing against a huge wall of societal misunderstanding, no
wonder she loses in the end.
A political drama can be defined as a play, film, or
television programme that has a political component. This
can reflect one of two things; the first being the political
opinion of the author, and the second being a description of
political events. On the other hand, a psychological drama
can be defined as a piece of drama, as mentioned in the
forms before, that contains elements relating to psychology,
and that may have risen from the mind or emotions of the
protagonist within the play. As to which category Antigone
belongs is still ambiguous...
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Aristotle’s System in Contemporary Times
...Politics as any science without a doubt needs a certain
way of classification, in order to make it clear and
understandable. Aristotle was one of the greatest thinkers
of the ancient world and he managed to create a system of
political classification that to this day is viewed as the
most efficient one. He was not a democrat; he believed that
an individual or a small group could rule good government.
Aristotle viewed democracy as system of rule by the masses
at the expense of wisdom and property. He aimed to answer
two questions: who rules? And, who benefits from the rules?
In each case, government could be conducted either in the
selfish interests of the rulers or for the benefit of the
whole community. From his studies into this area, Aristotle
classified six forms of political constitution: tyranny,
monarchy, oligarchy, aristocracy, democracy and finally,
polity. This system of classification was adapted from his
teacher, Plato’s Republic, Statesman, and Laws...
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Aristotle and Plato: two political
thoughts. Discuss similarities and differences between the
two.
...Plato was the father of the “Utopian” idea in which
several features were essential. He broke down the human
soul in three parts; Desire spiritual and rational. Plato
addresses the three features as being key to the
establishment of the perfect society. If every person
counterweights with the whole of society and these features
than society can understand each other and progress and work
towards the advancement of the society. Aristotle takes the
same concept but more clearly defines it and takes it to the
next level that goes beyond the perfect state and allows its
applications to influence the whole system rather that
purely serve as its basis. Aristotle has a perfect society
but is not as nearly exaggerated as that of a utopia.
Aristotle takes a more lenient attitude in his philosophy in
general, in which its application is easier to real life.
Aristotle sees only two parts to the human soul; the
philosophical/ theoretical and the rational. Superficially
one may derive from this that the human soul is far deeper
than that of Plato’s partitions. In fact Aristotle regards
human individual more than Plato does. Aristotle believes
that each and every human has the philosophical/ theoretical
dimension to him or her but the distinguishing feature is
the ability to be rational. Plato uses the analogy of
golden, silver and iron souls to distinguish the
differences...
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Sophocle’s Antigone and its major topics
...The theme of hubris is monumental in almost all of Greek
mythological works and in many ways the excessive pride of
certain characters contributes to their own downfall. Pride
and its effects are central to the play of Antigone. It is a
trait despised by the gods, who bring suffering to the
proud, but in the Greek mind, pride is also an inextricable
part of greatness. Pride is a multifaceted concept in Greek
tragedy. Both Antigone and Creon are extremely proud making
it impossible for either to back down as the Chorus points
out concerning Antigone:
“Not to give way when everything’s against her” Antigone’s
dual sense of pride and stubbornness fuels her personal
reactions...
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Sparta’s internal conditions as indicator
of its foreign strategies
...Sparta was a unique state constructed in a way to provide
proper running of all parts of the country correctly. It was
created with the help of well organized structure that
divided functions of the state into three major parts. Those
were: 1. Infrastructure of land plots, perioikoi and helots;
2.Government; 3. Ritual system. There was also an unusual
situation with citizenship in Sparta. The non-citizens were
under constant assault of the Spartans and served as
ritualistic objects suffering from wars and invasions by the
Spartans...
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