Instructions: Write a well organized literary analysis essay over the play, Antigone. The essay
will need to be written in MLA format (12 point font, double spaced, etc.) and will need to
include a works cited page. The essay must also be uploaded to turnitin.com to receive credit.
Prompt:
The eighteenth-century British novelist Laurence Sterne wrote, “No body, but he who has felt it,
can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man’s mind torn asunder by two projects of
equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time.” Choose a
character from Anitgone (not necessarily the protagonist) whose mind is pulled in conflicting
directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences. Then, in a
well-organized essay, identify each of the two conflicting forces and explain how this conflict
with one character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
