Women in Literature
Both Antigone and One Thousand and One Nights feature women as the protagonist, at times when women were not ordinarily depicted as lead characters in literature. Do the depictions of Antigone and Sharazad honor women or demean them, and in what way(s)?
Crime and Punishment
In Inferno, Antigone, and One Thousand and One Nights, there are punishments which accompany the “crimes” characters have committed. But what makes a crime? Can the punishments themselves be seen as crimes? Are they moral? Do they become moral because they are being inflicted onto sinners? If not, what does that say about the inflictors?