Half Page Summaries
-During Antigone, Sophocles uses imagery to make a better picture for the readers to show man’s selfishness and ignorance. For example, he says “a grave is cold, dark, enclosed and there is no way to escape it. Just like the grave is to a corpse, so is death to Creon. He fears it more than anything else, and yet he knows it awaits him.” Throughout the whole story there is a lot of foreshadowing for example, the statement that Creon makes to someone gives the readers an obvious hint of what might be coming next, “you will die before you marry Antigone.” Also during the book, Antigone and Creon both actually symbolize many opposing forces, for example: man vs. female, man vs. nature, and man’s laws vs. the law of the gods. There is also irony during the story when the Chorus is condemning Polyneices for being arrogant, when Creon the man that they support is full of himself also. The Chorus also describes Antigone as a flower in a metaphor, “lately this flower of Oedipus has drunk the sunlight, but now a passionate word and a handful of dust have closed up all its beauty.”
-During the book 1984, there are all of these posters hanging up around the city that says “Big Brother Is Watching You,” which symbolizes the party in its public manifestation; and is a reassurance to most people. Through irony, Winston has a very immortal behavior throughout 1984, which all his choices are not personal decisions nor are they small acts of rebellion; these choices are assigned to him. The tones set throughout this book are dark, frustrated, and negative. This book is taken from the point of view of Winston Smith. A theme shown in this book is the importance of language in shaping human thought.