In antigone by sophocles, antigone is aware of the deadly consequences of burying her brother polyneices against the king’s order. yet she goes forward with it anyway because she can’t bear to let her brother's corpse rot and serve as food for scavenging birds. what theme of the play does her action reflect?

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man