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Antigone wants only to perform the ritual of burying her dead brother Polynices. But he has died fighting against Thebes, and the city-state's tyrant, Creon, orders that the body lie unburied. Blind as his predecessor Oedipus, Creon unknowingly flouts the gods in his overweening pride. Moreover, Antigone is Oedipus' daughter. In Greek tragedy, the mills of the gods grind from generation to generation. Antigone buries her brother at the cost of her life, and Creon forfeits the lives of his son and his wife to the gods' anger...
...founded on the Declaration of American Independence. You will certainly enthuse your government to weigh between a technical sovereignty of a nation and a moral sovereignty of Man. Moreover, the President of Pakistan is not a President that you understand in your country. You do not regard a tyrant a President of people. And before the tyrant usurped power in ten years the Government of Pakistan had about ten Prime Ministers! And, finally, will America allow U.N. to go tre way of the League of Nations...
...created it. This is not to say, however, that Volonte is "unconvincing" in the realistic portrayal of an individual pig-figure. His characterization is in fact masterful in embodying the all-important humanist absolute, Ambiguity, as he transforms the cop smoothly, almost imperceptibly-within single shots-from an archetypal tyrant to a snivelling child. It is the very wholeness of his self-contradictory nature that precludes our connecting him concretely to other aspects of reality, i.e. perceiving political signification. Petri uses this character, an integral part of the System, to replace the System as a whole (metonymy)-a substitution structurally...
...firmly then Harvard shall become a place in which only those can thrive who promote their beliefs with violence and defend their rights with force. The freedom of the University and that of all its members is at stake, for where self-righteous force is the tyrant there is no freedom. And my life, and that of every peaceful citizen is at stake, for where the rights and freedoms which protect and insure life are held in contempt, where they can be trampled upon to establish the moral tyranny of a powerful few, there the life of free and peaceful...
...Whitman's Song of Myself, Professor Anderson confronts James' The Golden Bowl. The Jacobin crime, as he draws it up, was to take European culture, abstract it, then reconstruct the abstraction as a kind of kingdom in the novelist's mind, with Mad Henry as its tyrant...