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Oxford English Dictionary Bury Her Brother
1,309 words
Throughout history mankind has always been faced
with judgments. According the Oxford English
Dictionary, judgment means the mental ability to
form an opinion (AHD, 454). We are forced to make
decisions based on our mental opinions. Then, ones
actions are based on mental opinions which are
judged by other people. Then there is the
inevitable justification of these actions by other
people or the person themselves. According the
Oxford English Dictionary, justify means to
demonstrate sufficient le...
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Burying Her Brother Line Of Kings
1,463 words
In 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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Tells Oedipus King Laius
969 words
The play opens in front of the palace of Oedipus
at Thebes. Oedipus asks a priest and his
supplicants what they are wanting. The priest
thanks him for saving them from the Sphinx, but
tells him that the city needs saving again from a
plague that has descended. Oedipus admits this and
says that he has sent a messenger to Apollo's
shrine to find out what he must do to save the
city. The messenger arrives just then. The
messenger says that Apollo told him that the man
who murdered former King Laius...
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Oedipus At Colonus King Oedipus
374 words
Throughout, The Theban Plays Creon remained an
important character. From the first play King
Oedipus through the second play Oedipus at Colonus
Creon displayed a dramatic change in his
character. A change in Creon's personality was
noticeable when the truth about Oedipus was
revealed. The very beginning of King Oedipus,
Creon exposed a caring, concerned person. Sharing
with the town his good news allows the reader to
see his concerned side. Creon informed the town
about the previous king of Theb...
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Feels That Creon Laws Of Heaven Antigone
757 words
History 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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Tells The Audience Choral Ode
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... eon be put to death as a "symbol" of what
treason means. As his anger mounts Oedipus says
that Creon is "evil incarnate, " and should pay
for his treason with his life. Surprisingly, Creon
remains calm throughout this outburst. He doesn't
interrupt again to protest his innocence. His only
reaction is to say to the audience that Oedipus is
a "fool. " His self-control throws Oedipus'
irrational reaction into a bad light. Mercifully,
the heated argument is broken off when the Chorus
announces t...
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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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Antigone Pride And Conflict Of Law
970 words
Sophocles Antigone, in its later phases is no
longer about the conflict of law; It is about
stubbornness and self will, about the sin of
refusing to listen; about a man who has never been
told. Conflict of law, presents the initial
disturbance within Thebes. Creon, King of Thebes,
refuses to bury the body of Polynices, for in his
eyes Polynices is his countrys enemy Antigone pg.
131. Thus, despite breaking the laws of the gods,
Creon holds his power higher than that of God and
heavens and enforc...
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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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Made A Mistake Abuse Of Power
522 words
In the play Antigone I choose Creon to be the
tragic hero because he is the King of Thebes and
he looses everything he has. Creon being King
makes the audience believe that something like
that can happen to the King then what can happen
to us. Antigone the niece of Creon, The sister of
Polyneices was punished by Creon for burying
Polyneices after his death, Creon has forbidden
anybody to do so. Once Creon punished Antigone the
blind prophet Teiresias told him that the Gods
will take revenge for ...
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Rock Solid Principals Total Control His Character Creon
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In the story Antigone, the King of Thebes, Creon,
showed that too much power will corrupt anyone. As
Creon became the one with total control, his
character, judgment, and his principals
deteriorated. Antigone was written by Sophocles.
He did an excellent job of showing how absolute
power will corrupt absolutely. Using Creon's
utmost authority, Sophocles told of how everything
he once stood for had crumbled. Antigone begins by
telling of a Theban royal family which is in much
turmoil. There are m...
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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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Scene Iii Lines Law Of The Gods
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Antigone, written by Sophocles, is written two
dimensionally. The basic plot is about a young
woman, Antigone, who is trying to bury her dead
brother Creon. Her uncle the king, is preventing
her from doing so. On a deeper level, using a
familiar story, Sophocles sheds light on physics
and nomos: the law of the gods against the law of
man. In scene II, Haimon, son of Creon, is trying
to reason with his stubborn father. Pleading
rhetorically with his father to rethink his
stubborn laws and trying ...
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Creon And Antigone Complete Opposite
915 words
Morality 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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Bury Her Brother Pg 750 Line Antigone
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Antigone is a very strong willed character. In the
very first scene of the book Antigone is talking
to her sister (Ismene) about how their two
brothers (Eteocles and Polyneices) killed each
other fighting over the thrown. Antigone is
enraged over the fact that Creon (Antigone's uncle
and the new king) has buried Eteocles with
military honors but has left Polyneices to rot.
Creon has declared that any person who buries
Polyneices will be killed, but Antigone doesn't
care. Antigone is driven to bu...
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Oedipus At Colonus Creon
377 words
Throughout, The Theban Plays Creon remained an
important character. From the first play King
Oedipus through the second play Oedipus at Colonus
Creon displayed a dramatic change in his
character. A change in Creon? s personality was
noticeable when the truth about Oedipus was
revealed. The very beginning of King Oedipus,
Creon exposed a caring, concerned person. Sharing
with the town his good news allows the reader to
see his concerned side. Creon informed the town
about the previous king of The...
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Antigone Tragic Hero
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James 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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Bury Her Brother Creon And Antigone
604 words
In 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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Divine Will Is More Powerful Religious Beliefs Creon
607 words
2. In many ways, the plot of Antigone had to do
with power. Which of these do you think Sophocles
favors most strong in Antigone? POWER TRIPS In the
play, Antigone, written by Sophocles, Antigone and
Creon battle a philosophical war dealing with
moral versus political power. In essence,
Sophocles demonstrates that divine will is more
powerful than that of the state. Antigone's side
of the conflict is a more heavenly approach as
opposed to the political venue taken by Creon.
Antigone feels that C...
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End Of The Play Oedipus Rex
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Tragedy was performed in Athens at the annual
festival of Dionysus, the Great, or the City,
Dionysia in late March. Competition was held on
three successive mornings of the festival. Three
tragic poets, who had been selected earlier in the
year, each presented a tetralogy, consisting of
three tragedies and a satyr play. Additional
festivities included comic and dithyrambic
contests, religious processions and rituals of
various kinds. At the close of the festival ten
judges chosen by lot determin...
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