Antigone Take Home Essay

The Basic Persuasive Essay II: Antigone

See The Lost Tools of Writing, Lesson 3.

Assignment: Turn one of the Five Key Questions into a statement. Then pick a character that is relevant to that issue. Write an essay that argues that this character should or should not have done something that is relevant to that statement.

Your essay will explain:

• how the issue unfolds in Antigone
• why the character acted correctly or why the character should have acted differently
• the importance of the issue for our world.

Five Key Questions:

• ·         Is the safety and protection of a city more important than the basic rights of its citizens?
• ·         Does loyalty to one’s family outweigh loyalty to one’s country, when the two are in conflict?
• ·         How much control should the government have over its citizens?
• ·         What happens when government law conflicts with religious law or moral law?
• ·         When is civil disobedience the right course of action?

Requirements:

• Follow MLA guidelines
• Quote at least three times from the play
• Underline
• Your exordium 
• Your thesis
• Topic sentences
• At least one good example of parallelism

Due Date:

• RD due Jan. 29
• FD due Feb. 5
• Please provide Paper and Focus copies of your FD.

Outline (based on LTOW):

1. Introduction
1. Exordium (“Hook,”)
2. Thesis
3. Enumeration (the number of reasons)
4. Exposition (the reasons, maintain parallelism)

                                                              i.      Proof 1

                                                            ii.      Proof 2

                                                          iii.      Proof 3

2. Proof 1 (Make sure to quote the play. You can put it in part A, B, or C, whatever works best for your argument.)
1. Support A
2. Support B
3. Support C
3. Proof 2 (Make sure to use a 2^nd quote from the play. You can put it in part A, B, or C, whatever works best for your argument.)
1. Support A
2. Support B
3. Support C
4. Proof 3 (Make sure to use a 3^rd quote from the play. You can put it in part A, B, or C, whatever works best for your argument.)
1. Support A
2. Support B
3. Support C
5. Conclusion
1. Thesis (reword it a bit)
2. Summary

                                                              i.      Proof 1

                                                            ii.      Proof 2

                                                          iii.      Proof 3