Themes are overarching ideas, thoughts, and philosophical concepts that the writers present in their works. Antigone has themes that are not only universal but also applicable to this day. Sophocles has put a few intriguing themes in Antigone that display his understanding of those concepts and ideas of his time. Some of the major themes of Antigone by Sophocles have been analyzed below. Blindness Blindness in a real or metaphorical sense is the major theme of various Grecian plays. Creon ignores Tiresias’s warning and is unable to see the facts which are similar to that of Oedipus. The words of this seer echo as they show the clear path to Creon who is unwilling to compromise like Oedipus. He appears to have attributed the holy laws to himself ordering not to bury Polynices, Antigone’s brother who has rebelled against him. He does not rethink and changes his mind about his order to leave Polynices’ body to rot. As he does not see past his pride, he is blind. When the crisis s...
Like other literary forms, early and many later novels were often concerned with the 'quintessential' Australian qualities: convicts, the bush, bushrangers, folklore, tales of pioneering, family sagas, floods, droughts, bushfires, battlers, Aboriginal people, Irishmen and lost children.Early Australian novelists included: Marcus Clarke, Miles Franklin, Clarence (Clarrie or Den) Michael James Stanislaus (CJ) Dennis, Edward Dyson and Doris Pilkington. The slow, or non-existent, rate of publication did not deter them from continuing to write their poems, books and plays. A new breed of writers was born in the 20th century. They redefined what could be expected from writing even if they used the same backdrop of the bush as early writers had done. Published in 1901, My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin is often said to be the first authentic Australian novel.The most eminent fiction writer after 1945 was Patrick White, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. In a do...