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    self-destruct themselves? It could have been a family tragedy. In Sophocles Antigone Antigone buries her brother‚ which is against the law‚ but she still does it and gets sent to a cave to be killed. Creon‚ the leader‚ must make a big descion to keep his authority. Through Koryphaios’s conversation with Creon he convinces him not to kill Antigone. Leaders need to enforce laws to keep a country alive. Haimon‚ Creon’s son‚ is engaged to Antigone. Haimon talks to Creon and he gives supportive reasons not to kill

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    be able to handle it. As a result‚ he doesn’t dare reconsider any of his decisions--doing so‚ he thinks might make him appear weak and cause his subjects to lose respect for him. So when he orders that Polyneices be left unburied and then orders Antigone to be entombed alive when she’s caught violating the order‚ he can’t let himself listen to her or Ismene or to Haimon. He even refuses to listen to Teiresias‚ conveying the displeasure of the gods‚ until Teiresias has left‚ but in fact that message

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    Antigone Analysis Antigone is a strong willed woman that defies her uncle’s orders and buries her dead brother Polyneices‚ who fought against Thebes in the civil war. She goes and buries her brother‚ and performs the rituals of the dead. I believe Antigone buried her brother out of divine edict‚ and not to defy the king. She may have been incredibly angry about the way her brother’s body had been treated‚ but I believe she done what she has done out of her own beliefs.

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    Conflict In Antigone

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    Antigone 1. The action of the play begins immediately with a conflict between Antigone and Ismene. What is the conflict? Antigone wants Ismene to help her bury her brother but Ismene is afraid of death and says they are only women and says she doesn’t want to die with everyone hating her. 2. Antigone and Ismene are strongly contrasted in this scene. What can you tell about their characters? Antigone is a leader and wants to do the right thing. Ismene

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    Allusion In Antigone

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    In Antigone‚ Sophocles uses allusions to praise her courage in accepting her fate. Antigone shared many similarities to Danae. In Ode 4 as the chorus describes the misfortune of Danae it is stated that “a prisoner hidden in a chamber like a tomb‚ although she too‚ came from a noble line. And she my child had in her care the liquid streaming golden seed of Zeus‚”(line 2-4). This mirrors Antigone in the way that Antigone is too thrown into a cave and looked in it as if it was her tomb. Danae was imprisoned

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    Themes In Antigone

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    Theme #1: As death slowly isolates Antigone by taking away those dearest to her heart‚ she feels as if her home is below with the ones she cares about rather than in a corrupt world full of animosity. She tries coping with the pain but desperately needs to connect with death to maintain her happiness. Antigone also tries to escape her fate through death but safeguards the respect of the gods while doing so “[...]all for reverence‚ my reverence for the gods (1034)”. However‚ Antigone’s obdurance causes

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    Antigone Essay

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    Kylie Bartlett Per. 3 4/1/11 Antigone essay Remember those people who always thought they were right‚ and they always ended up in trouble for it? I Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ the main characters Antigone and Creon show how being so hubris can be tragic to your life. Set back in ancient Greece an epic battle takes place and brothers end up killing each other. One was allowed a proper burial‚ yet Polyinesis was not. Antigone felt disappointed by this and decided to bury them yet Creon the newly

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    Sophocles - Antigone

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    follow whether good or bad are can only be blamed on us. Sophocles’s Antigone portrays human emotions and consequences that follow two distinct choices. We can broaden the spectrum by saying that Creon represents public policy and Antigone represents individual conscience. According to E.S. Shuckburgh we must examine which is more important “state law or divine conscience”. (Shuckburgh xviii) Antigone is a story about two people who choose to make choices that each are passionate

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    Mckay And Antigone

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    to the play Antigone because they all have something to do with dying in honor and control who you are. Antigone wants to bury Polyneices’ body. Ismene refuses to help her because Ismene is afraid of getting the death penalty. Antigone says if she dies from trying to bury her brother Polyneices‚ she will die in honor knowing that she will do anything to have her brother die peaceful and the way he is supposed to. The poem “If we must die” best represents to Antigone because Antigone wants to die

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    Pity In Antigone

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    Samantha Albert Mr. Jordan Antigone Fear/ Pity Fear and Pity Shown in Antigone The Greek Philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as a form of drama that evokes fear and pity in the audience. The tragic play Antigone conflicts that definition because although pity is evoked throughout the play‚ modern audiences have difficulty experiencing fear because they fail to acknowledge the role fate plays in their everyday lives. At the end of

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