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Burying Her Brother Line Of Kings
1,463 wordsIn Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone, two characters undergo character changes. During the play the audience sees these two characters' attitudes change from close minded to open-minded. It is their close minded, stubborn attitudes, which lead to their decline in the play, and ultimately to a series of deaths. In the beginning Antigone is a close minded character who later becomes open minded. After the death of her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, Creon becomes the ruler of Thebes. He decide...
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Reader Feels Final Decision
717 wordsWhen a play-write creates a tragedy, two of the main aspects that need to be included are feelings of pity and fear on the readers part. In Sophocles Antigone, the presence of fear and pity are very obvious. The people who suffer cause the reader to feel the need to comfort them. It is an example of a very strong tragedy. The main idea or theme behind Antigone, is that one should listen to other peoples opinions or advice and consider it before making any final decision or actions. This theme ca...
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Martyr A Masochist Antigone A Martyr A Masochist Creon
427 wordsAntigone: A Martyr, a Masochist, and a Victim of Tyranny The play Antigone written by Sophocles takes, place in the 400 's B. C. in the town of Thebes, Greece. When Antigone hears her brother shall not have a proper burial, she breaks the kings order and sprinkles dirt over Polyneices body. Antigone pleads for her life, but Creon, the king locks her up in a room of stone in the wilderness. Haimon, engaged to Antigone attempts to rescue her, but finds her dead. Then Haimon kills himself after an ...
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Tragic Hero Creon Fits Antigone
977 wordsA tragic hero, according to Aristotelian definitions, is a "highly renowned and prosperous" character. This figure is not perfect and has to be on some level responsible for his or her downfall. The hero's punishment usually exceeds the crime. By the end of the play, this hero recognizes his or her own error or flaw and accepts the overwhelming retribution. Through this experience, he or she finally gains wisdom. In Antigone by Sophocles, Creon fits the term tragic hero more adequately than Anti...
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Feels That Creon Laws Of Heaven Antigone
757 wordsHistory 100 9 / 29 / 99 Adrian Kick Antigone During the ancient years of Greece, new ideas came up that complicated life. These new beliefs came with the strong development of science, where people started to get new aspects of Gods. But yet they were encouraged to exercised Gods and the heavenly matters in city-states. These new ideals often conflicted with each other creating complex moral dilemmas. In the play, Antigone and Creon battle a philosophical war dealing with the controversy of the ...
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Law And Order Moral Beliefs
987 wordsPeople with different views of the way humanity and its laws function reach certain stages of moral development. Kohlbergs presents us with these stages of moral development. The individual is categorized under his or her moral priority and the way he or she would handle unexpected situations. In Sophocles play, Antigone, characters illustrate Kohlberg's moral development principles. Ismene embodies Kohlberg's pre-conventional stage throughout Sophocles play Antigone. In Kohlberg's first level o...
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Bury Her Brother Great Job
864 wordsMake these excuses, I will heap/ The earth over my brothers body (63). Although no one would help her, Antigone took a stand against injustice and honored her brother by burying him, even though Creon said this act would be punishable by death if anyone committed this act of insubordination. Especially in the age that Antigone lived in, it was considered foolish to simply go against a mans orders, let alone the Kings. Not to mention that Antigone was related to the King, making the situation eve...
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Antigone And Ismene Ismene Is Loyal Brother
639 wordsTwo sisters destined to love each other, but conflict interrupts their paths. The firsts journey is one of self-exploration and discovery; the others of continual oppression and hardships. Ismene and Antigone are the troubled sisters whose decisions take them on different courses, but these same choices also brought them together. Even though their actions show differently, Antigone and Ismene's morals and philosophies show that they are true sisters at heart. Antigone shows the attribute of bol...
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Divine Laws Driving Force
1,820 wordsIn the play Antigone, Sophocles poses many different themes and moral lessons. The specific component I would like to focus on is selfishness and its effects. Through the characters various actions and ultimate fates, Sophocles teaches us that selfish, self-serving motives lead to destruction, loneliness and loss. Two characters that exemplify the consequences of selfishness are Creon, the King, and Ismene, Antigone's sister. Antigone, of course, being the heroin of the story reinforces this les...
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Late King Divine Law
996 wordsThe struggle between right and wrong, the demands between family and that of the government, and the ultimate struggle between divine law and those made by man is the center of Sophocles' Antigone. Through this expression of Greek drama, a sense of what life must have been like in the time of Sophocles comes across. In his world, women are subjugated and supposed to be silent spectators to the world around them as men's search for power leads to incredible acts against both human and divine law....
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Creon And Antigone Complete Opposite
915 wordsMorality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty, writes author Aldous Huxley. In Antigone the root of Creon's immoral behavior is not an inability to distinguish between what is wrong and what is right, but, rather, a fear or a terror of what may occur if he were to choose the morally right way to operate. Very well, I am afraid, then. Does that satisfy you? I a...
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Tragic Hero Tragic Flaw
729 wordsThe intelligence and wit that Hamlet was so respected for would unknowingly be the end of him. The drive for revenge that was originated by his father's murder seemed to disappear by his exceeding careful movement and thoughtful postponement. Hamlet became too concerned with the things that might happen and lost sight of what needed to happen. The tragic end that Hamlet saw was only due to the character flaws that he had. Hamlet was a tragic hero, because of the tragic end that he brought upon h...
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Antigone Vs Midsummer Night Dream
1,479 wordsAntigone Vs Midsummer Night's Dream Within the scope of this research, we will discuss the role of irony in the two plays Antigone and Midsummer Nights Dream. Although the plays are written by different authors, and are quite different in their nature, irony plays a significant role in understanding the plays at large. In Antigone, Antigone displays the tragic flaw of disproportionate ambition. The irony of the play is in the fact that while Antigone appears to be a tragic hero, she herself is r...
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Bury Her Brother Sentenced To Death
720 wordsWas Antigone a Tragic Heroine? ? Tragedy, to be at its finest, requires a complex, not a simple, structure, and its structure should also imitate fearful and pitiful events. ? These words of wisdom come from the great philosopher Aristotle. Antigone, written by Sophocles, exemplifies Aristotle? s definition of tragedy, and more precise the tragic heroine. Antigone the main character / heroine in this tragic tale, risks her life to bury her brother Polyneices. As she pleased the Gods, she was pun...
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Rest Of His Life King Of Thebes
1,957 wordsWho Is the Tragic Hero, Antigone or Creon? This analysis is to determine the character that fits the tragic hero profile; it was completely based according to the Aristotelian idea of tragic hero and it is understood that hero is: ? ? neither purely evil or purely wicked; the hero must born in the high social status, and he / she must possess a tragic flaw which is proper from the inner side of the character; it usually manifests in the form of poor judgment and or arrogance, condemning him / he...
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Antigone Tragic Hero
848 wordsJames Monahan Mrs. Mc Nicholas English 4 AP 11 December 2000 Creon as Tragic Hero Since the play? s inception, there has always existed a contention concerning the true hero of Sophocles? Antigone. It is a widely held belief that Antigone must be the main character simply because she and the drama share name. This is, of course, a very logical assumption. Certainly Sophocles must have at least meant her to be viewed as the protagonist, else he would not have given her the play? s title. Analytic...
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Male Dominated Society Literature Reading Reacting Writing
1,916 wordsENGL 1302 Professor BoninbyMary Finch The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present Gender conflict arises when one set or another defies social not through thought or actions. Society is constantly changing, some would say evolving, and gender roles are constantly being redefined. Female have traditionally been subservient to males women throughout the passage of time have found themselves fighting our male dominated society in order to gain their rights and remedies...
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Bury Her Brother Creon And Antigone
604 wordsIn many respects, Sophocles explains the meaning of Greek justice in Antigone. On the surface, we see Antigone as a conflict between divine law and mans law. Antigone is the believer in divine law and Creon is the believer in mans law. Sophocles could have suggested one character as morally superiority over the other. However, Sophocles shows us how justice is equally mitigated to Antigone and Creon. In pre socratic Greece Justice will equally apply herself to both and favor no one. While rulers...
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Riddle Of The Sphinx Oedipus The King
1,035 wordsHeroic leaders come in many odd shapes and forms. As can be seen in the characters of Sophocles Oedipus the King and Antigone. Contained within these famous Greek tragedies one can see how leadership is fostered and the challenges encountered by the two characters of Oedipus and Antigone. Although they are tragic heroic leaders, they are able to maintain an integrity that is vital in a leader. In comparing Oedipus and Antigone there is a similarity between them in terms of the main characters le...
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Antigone Was Explaining Conflict Antigone Creon
282 wordsAhmed B. Karim Antigone Essay (Is Antigone a Feminist/Anti-Feminist Play) Sunday, Oct. 31, 2000 I think Antigone was a feminist play because of three main facts. Antigone was in all the conflicts, even though Creon started them all, even though Creon had all the power, Antigone still won the war between her and Creon, also no woman in her time would even think of doing the things that Antigone did. Antigone was in all the conflicts, which include, Antigone vs. Creon, Antigone vs. Ismene, Antigon...
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