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Proper Burial City State
924 words
In Ancient Greece, after 800 bc. , new ideas came
to the forefront concerning the governing of
society. These ideas led to a more organized
leadership and a government whose decisions were
primarily based on majority rule. This system took
the form of city-states, large self-governing
towns. These city-states were founded on
principals of "freedom, optimism, secularism,
rationalism, [and] the glorification of body and
mind." Accompanying these principals was an
obligation of fierce loyalty to th...
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Bury Her Brother Concept Of Fate
444 words
Sophocles Antigone concerns the struggle of a
young woman battling for justice at all costs. The
idea of fate is a staple throughout Greek
Literature, and Sophocles uses the concept of fate
to dictate the actions of a character. Antigone's
destiny is one of predestination, a mission of the
gods which begins with her ill-fated family and
Creons decree, and ends with her own actions. The
Ancient Greek plays contain a concept of fate that
dictates every action taken by, and every word
spoken by a c...
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Heroic Figure Heroic Code
775 words
" Achilles vs. Antigone" The word heroic means
surpassing the ordinary especially in size or
scale; relating to or characteristic of heroes of
antiquity; having or displaying qualities
appropriate for heroes; impressive in size or
scope; showing extreme courage; especially of
actions courageously undertaken in desperation as
a last resort. In Homers The Iliad Achilles the
heroic figure, and also in Sophocles Antigone
Antigone is the heroic figure. Arte is an Ancient
Greek word that describes the...
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Antigone And Ismene Proper Burial
510 words
In Sophocles's ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone,
there is a woman who chooses to go with the
feeling inside her heart and obey law of the Gods,
rather than to obey civil law. Antigone's bother
Eteoles was given a proper burial after a war in
their homeland of Thebes. She wants her brother,
Polyneices, who was the enemy, also to be given a
proper burial, but the king prohibits the burial.
Kreon, the king, is the protagonist who displays
hubris in his quest for absolute power. Without
reason, Kreon...
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Power Go To His Head Leads To His Destruction Pride
978 words
Pride is a quality that all people possess in one
way or another. Some people take pride in their
appearance, worldly possessions, or position in
society. The story of Antigone written by
Sophocles has two characters who have a tragic
flaw of pride. I will show how Creon's pride of
power leads to his destruction, and how Antigone's
pride makes her an honorable character who should
be treated as a hero. Creon is a man who has just
become the king of Thebes and has a flaw of having
too much pride....
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Antigone Does Follow Aristotelian Unities Play
508 words
This poem is quite successful in getting the plot
across to the reader. Unfortunatly, that is all he
can get across because of his belief that, "inside
every fat book is a skinny book trying to get out.
" Sargoff cannot have character descriptions,
themes, or any real detail in his "skinny book"
because of his beliefs. Sargoff leaves off why
Polynices should not be buried and why his
brother, who is not even mentioned, can be buried.
This is important to building the feelings of
contempt towards...
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Bury Her Brother Antigone
339 words
In everyday life, the outcome of your day can be
altered by the simplest or most complicating
choices. Antigone's decision to bury her brother,
Creon's choice to sentence Antigone to death, and
again Antigone's choice to end her life were
important decisions that other characters based
their conclusions around. The choices of the
characters in Antigone change the outcome of the
play and the lives or choices of other characters.
The famous "first" decision of Antigone was to
bury her brother Poly...
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' P Loved One
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... the gods celebrating traitors? Inconceivable!'
(p 73) Creon speaks of citizens that loyally
submitting to their king would follow their kings
in good times as well as bad. But his own nephew
turned against him and his state, and an audience
can understand the problem Creon was faced with as
the ruler of the city and can empathize that the
decision not to pay the last rites to a traitor is
just. By empathizing with this it gives credit to
Creon as a ruler, but raises ambiguity about
Creon's c...
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Value Judgement Gender Issues Creon
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ter> Defending Creon: a monarch within his rights
to rule In Antigone, especially with the
feminist movement now holding the title character,
as prototypical downtrodden woman, the king Creon
is often vilified. While accepting the fact that
Creon has misogynist tendencies, the gender issues
can cause the pure argument of validity of
actions, to fall by the wayside. So supposing for
a moment, that Antigone's rebellion had been
undertaken by a male, would Creon's choices have
been differ...
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The Tragic Hero In Antigone
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Antigone is a Greek tragic piece that stresses the
use of power and morality versus the law written
by Sophocles. Both Antigone and Creon, the main
characters in the play, could represent the tragic
hero. A tragic hero is a character who is known
for being dignified and has a flaw that assists to
his or her downfall. In my opinion, Creon best
qualifies for being the tragic hero and fitting
the definition read in the previous sentence. The
things he said, did, and the comments that were
made by t...
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Creon Antigone Haimon
847 words
The Greek drama Antigone, written by Sophocles,
has many antitheses. Among them are love versus
hate, life versus death, and the state versus the
individual. However, the dominant antithesis is
the one of pride versus wisdom. Polyneices and
Eteocles, two brothers, had killed each other in
battle. Their uncle Creon, the new king, buried
Eteocles with military honors, but format the
burial of Polyneices as he considered him a
traitor. Antigone, the sister of them both, feels
she has to bury her ow...
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Oedipus At Colonus 5 Th Century
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... cles was born about 496 BC in Colonus Hippius
(now part of Athens), the son of Sophillus,
reportedly a wealthy armor-maker. Sophocles was
provided with the best traditional aristocratic
education. As a young man, he was chosen to lead
the chorus of youths who celebrated the naval
victory at Salamis in 480 BC. In 468 BC, at the
age of 28, he defeated Aeschylus, whose
preeminence as a tragic poet had long been
undisputed, in a dramatic competition. The date of
the first contest with Euripides ...
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Bad Things Absolute Power
908 words
Creon Creon can be perceived as a protagonist of
Sophocles tragedies Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
Creon can be viewed as the central character of
this play on many diverse levels. In terms of the
arrangement of the play, Creon speaks roughly
twice the lines of Antigone and is in more or less
every scene of the play, while Antigone in last
seen at line 943 in a 1353 line play. Since
Sophocles wrote this play for a viewing audience,
Creon presumes a greater importance than Antigone.
There is also the...
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Gods And Goddesses Oedipus The King
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The Three Great Epics- Three of the greatest
literary works are Oedipus the King, Antigone and
the Odyssey. Oedipus the King and Antigone, part
of a three part series, was composed by Sophocles
and performed on the stage during a three day
festival. While Odyssey was story written down by
Homer and was one of the first recorded epics that
was and is still being read today. The following
shall be a comparison between these three great
epics in terms of their similarities and their
differences. In...
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Tragic Hero Audience Sees
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Creon as Antigone's Tragic Figure In Sophocles
Antigone, Creon clearly fills the role of the
tragic figure. He fits all seven of the traits of
a tragic hero as defined by Northrop Frye. Two of
these traits stand out especially; Creon s sense
of commitment to his decision and his
transfiguration after suffering the consequences
of his actions. Creon s decision to outlaw
Polyneices s burial sets the stage for the tragedy
that ensues. He regards Polyneices as an enemy of
Thebes and sees no reason t...
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Oedipus Rex Ill Fated
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? Fate? Throughout Sophocles? s Three Theban
Plays: Antigone, ? Fate? Throughout Sophocles? s
Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus
At Colonus? Fate? Throughout Sophocles? s Three
Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at
Colonus The classical Greek writers have given the
world major literary themes. One such theme is?
Fate? . According to Webster? s New World
Dictionary of the American Language the word fate
is defined as? the principal or determining cause
or will by which t...
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Walls Of The City Womens Issue Antigone
915 words
One of the most devastating problems for the
Classical Greeks was the womens issue. Women in
Classical Greece were not citizens, held no
property, and indeed were not even allowed out of
the house except under guard. Their status
differed from that of the slaves of Greece only in
name. This alone, however was not a problem the
problem was that the Greeks knew, in their hearts,
that this was wrong. Indeed, their playwrights
harangued them about it from the stage of Athens
continually. All of the ...
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Bury Her Brother Antigone
336 words
In everyday life, the outcome of your day can be
altered by the simplest or most complicating
choices. Antigone's decision to bury her brother,
Creon's choice to sentence Antigone to death, and
again Antigone's choice to end her life were
important decisions that other characters based
their conclusions around. The choices of the
characters in Antigone change the outcome of the
play and the lives or choices of other characters.
The famous first decision of Antigone was to bury
her brother Polyne...
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Worlds Religions Greek Culture
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Man s Relationship With a Higher Being Man s
relationship with a higher being, if there is such
a thing, is a very controversial issue. A person s
beliefs can cause them to do and say things that
someone with different beliefs would not say or
do. Some people believe in several gods while some
believe in just one God. And there are those who
don t believe in any form of aligner being. People
with these different beliefs can all lead
relatively normal and similar ways of life, but in
most cases m...
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Oedipus The King Creon
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The great heroes of the ancient world have been
passed on in many ways, stories, plays,
biographies and many other forms of literature.
Here I will explore The Epic o f Gilgamesh, two
plays by Sophocles, and two writings by Plutarch.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest
pieces of literature to be discovered. Dating back
to the third millennium BC, it was a series of
poems carved into clay tablets. It told of the
hero, Gilgamesh, who was created by the gods, was
two-thirds god and one-thi...
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