She however chooses to ignore the stakes as she realizes that what she has to lose compares nothing to what she and her family could gain. In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ Antigone makes a decision to bury her brother Polynieces‚ a traitor to her homeland of Thebes‚ because he is her brother and it is the duty of the women of the family to bury their family members if no more men are around to bury them (Sophocles‚ lines 30-65).
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among other various movements worldwide. One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ in which Antigone‚ one of the daughters of former King of Thebes‚ Oedipus‚ defies Creon‚ the current King of Thebes‚ who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. She gives a stirring speech in which she tells him that she must obey her conscience rather than human law. She is not at all afraid of the death he
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Introductory Paragraphs for Antigone 2. Antigone violated the laws set forth the land of Thebes by her uncle Creon and planned to defy Creon’s order and bury Polynices. Antigone possesses a remarkable ability to remember the past. Whereas her father Oedipus defies Tiresias‚ the prophet who has helped him so many times‚ and whereas he seems almost to have forgotten his encounter with Laius at the three-way crossroads‚ Antigone begins her play by talking about the many griefs that her father handed
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the gods when following both sets of laws at a time seems to be difficult. Antigone wishes to honor the gods by burying her brother‚ but the law of Creon says that he shall have no burial since her brother is technically a traitor to the state. Antigone has determined to give her brother‚ Polynices‚ the proper burial even if it cost her own life. Antigone said to Creon:
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What is a tragic hero? Antagone is an interesting play with many interesting characters included in it. Antigone who is a women who just wanted to give her loving brother‚ Polyneices a proper burial. Creon Antigone’s uncle who sought after giving Polyneices the title of traitor. There is a right and a wrong and in my opinion Creon was in the wrong‚ i mean by making stupid‚ and stubborn decisions that would soon lead to his downfall‚ making him the tragic hero of this play. A tragic hero is a literary
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and prosperity" and Creon and Antigone are the characters that could fit this definition best. Aristotle first of all suggests that a tragic hero must be someone of high stature and status. Antigone is someone who is part of the royal family of Thebes. She occupies a position of aristocracy and to an extent represents nobility. Furthermore the person must be a person that embodies virtue and decency according to Aristotle. From the beginning of the play Antigone earns the respect of the audience
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when they died. These included the mummifying (preserving) the body and preparing the tomb (for example‚ by putting food and goods in the coffin). Polytheism- the Egyptians believed in many different Gods and Goddesses. The Burial Customs: The Egyptians had very elaborate burial customs. They built pyramids as monumental tombs for their dead pharaohs. The most famous and the largest of all the pyramids is at Giza. It belonged to the Pharaoh Cheops. The pyramids at Giza are guarded by a huge stone statue
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Kreon as a king sets guidelines and rules for the people of Thebes to obey. As a king and person in charge of order he is able and has the right to make laws. He has the right to make the law he set out for Antigone’s brother‚ Polyneices‚ body to be left untouched (improper burial) and left to rot because of his rebellion against the city. Kreons morals are all wrong in making this law. As a newly crowned king‚ as of any
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"Power corrupts‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely‚" said Lord Acton generations ago. In the Greek tragedy Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ there was a character named Kreon‚ the antagonist‚ who was the king of Thebes. Thebes was an autocratic state where Kreon had absolute power. Throughout the course of the play‚ Kreon abused his privilege of absolute power; and this caused him to suffer greatly‚ even though he was warned by a few people of his bad deeds. What Sophocles commented on absolute
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general is much more complex‚ with multiple viewpoints and intricacies being required in order to have a grasp on the reality of a situation. In Sophocles’s Antigone this fact still holds true. Antigone and Kreon are locked in an argument over the burial of her brother‚ Polyneices‚ with Antigone going against the law set up by Kreon and burying her brother. Both have their views and reasons for the way they act. Despite this‚ Antigone deserves more sympathy for her actions. She bases her actions
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