Excerpt from a woman who went to alaska
may kellogg sullivan

5naturally, my traveling companions interested me exceedingly. there were few women. two ladies with their husbands were going to dawson on business. about eight or ten other women belonging to the rapid class of individuals journeyed at the same time. we had all nationalities and classes. there were two women from europe with luggage covered with foreign stickers, and a spoken jargon which was neither german nor french, but sounded like a clever admixture of both.

6then there was the woman who went by the name of mrs. somebody or other who wore a seal-skin coat, diamond earrings and silver-mounted umbrella. she had been placed in the same stateroom with me on the steamer at seattle, and upon making her preparations to retire for the night had offered me a glass of brandy, while imbibing one herself, which i energetically, though politely, refused. at midnight a second woman of the same caste had been ushered into my room to occupy the third and last berth, whereupon next morning i had waited upon the purser of the ship, and modestly but firmly requested a change of locationbased on the passage, which most likely explains why the narrator requested a change of rooms?

Read the excerpts from "the royal house of thebes" and "the story of a warrior queen." "we are women," she told her sister. "we must obey. we have no strength to defy the state." "choose your own part," antigone said. "i go to bury the brother i love." "you are not strong enough," ismene cried. "why, then when my strength fails," antigone answered, "i will give up." she left her sister; ismene dared not follow her. —"the royal house of thebes" again and again the romans were defeated, till it almost seemed as if the britons really would succeed in driving them out of the country. boadicea herself led the soldiers, encouraging them with her brave words. "it is better to die with honor than to live in slavery," she said. "i am a woman, but i would rather die than yield. will you follow me, men? " and of course the men followed her gladly. —"the story of a warrior queen" how are the archetypes presented in these two passages different? the first passage shows antigone as a warrior, and the second passage shows boadicea as a tragic heroine. the first passage shows antigone as a tragic heroine, and the second passage shows boadicea as a sage. the first passage shows antigone as a rebel, and the second passage shows boadicea as a warrior. the first passage shows antigone as a villain, and the second passage shows boadicea as a sage.