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Suggested outline for Hegel on Antigone Essay

Tips: Be sure to format your paper as instructed in Unit 1.5.

Be sure your works cited page looks like the sample works cited on e-Campus.

For a play, parentheticals are scene and line number (Sc 1 Lns 57-58).

For an outside source, parentheticals are author’s last name and page number, if there is one (Brown 4).

Consult the link on integrating quotations.

Use ONLY library databases to find outside sources. Googled sources are garbage!

See the librarian for help researching.

See the tutors in the Learning Center, 10-2, for checking your paper.

I. Introductory paragraph

a. Introduce the author, Sophocles, and the play title, Antigone.

b. Introduce Hegel and his philosophy about Antigone.

c. Write a thesis statement in which you agree or disagree with Hegel.

II. First body paragraph

a. Topic sentence: State an agreement or disagreement with Hegel about Antigone, the character.

b. For example, explain why you agree or disagree with Hegel about Antigone, the character.

c. Quote the play to support your opinion about Antigone, the character.

d. Explain how that quotation supports your opinion.

e. Quote an outside source that supports your opinion about Antigone.

f. Explain how that source agrees with you.

g. Write a concluding sentence that wraps up the paragraph.

III. Second body paragraph

a. Topic sentence: State an agreement or disagreement with Hegel about Creon.

b. For example, explain why you agree or disagree with Hegel about Creon.

c. Quote the play to support your opinion about Creon.

d. Explain how that quotation supports your opinion.

e. Quote an outside source that supports your opinion about Creon.

f. Explain how that quotation agrees with you.

g. Write a concluding sentence that wraps up the paragraph.

IV. Concluding paragraph

a. Do not summarize your essay. Instead, try to draw some philosophical conclusion based on what you just argued. What does it say about humanity?

V. Works Cited page

a. Follow the guidelines for crafting a works cited page.

b. Everyone should include the citation (provided) for the play.

c. Then, your 2 outside library database sources.

d. You should have a total of 5 entries on your works cited page.

e. Follow the directions in unit 1.5 for getting the works cited page on a separate page.