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    Inner Turmoil in Antigone

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    Inner Turmoil: When You Have to Choose In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the tragic hero‚ Antigone‚ must choose between the laws set by man‚ and her religious beliefs and family loyalty. When her brother‚ Polynieces‚ is killed in battle‚ King Creon sets forth a law prohibiting the burial of Polynieces. Antigone is very loyal to her family; we see this when he buries Polynieces’ body‚ even when Creon forbade it. On many occasions‚ people are faced with tests where both answers are right‚ but those people

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    motives that drive Antigone to action. When I read the play I believe‚ it is a strong sense alligence to her family‚ and pure anger that drives Antigone to make the decision to act against Creons law and bury her brother Polyneices. After loosing her mother to sucided‚ her father and her twin brothers‚ Antigone and her sister Ismene are the last of the Labadcus family (a royal family). The lost of so many loved ones in a short period of time begins to manifests feelings in Antigone causing her to believe

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    Being the third‚ yet first written‚ of Sophocles’ Theban tragic myths‚ Antigone was written in or around 441 B.C. The setting of Antigone occurs in the palace of Thebes. Thebes is ruled by Creon‚ whose sister‚ Jocasta‚ was the wife and mother of infamous Oedipus Rex. Oedipus was King of Thebes until he expelled himself from the kingdom‚ leaving his children Polynices‚ Ismene‚ Eteocles‚ and Antigone‚ along with the throne‚ in Creon’s care. The two brothers Polynices and Eteocles die as opposing

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    Creon's Role In Antigone

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    Sophocles has different characters‚ Antigone is the younger daughter of oedipus and Jocasta. Creon is the brother of antigone. Creon is Antigone and creon is powerfully‚ built but a weary and wrinkled man suffering the burdens of rule. Antigone is sallow‚ withdrawn and a brat. The chorus frames the play by introducing the action and characters under the sign of fatality. The Nurse is an addition to the Antigone legend. She introduced on everyday‚ element into the play that heightens the strangeness

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    Olaf Thorson Johnson IB English‚ Period 4 January 1‚ 2013 Civil Disobedience and Antigone Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech focuses on the importance of freedom and brotherhood in a nation and is intended to rally Americans to demonstrate their anger at the injustices of segregation and racism through “creative protest.” While King’s passion and anger at the status quo is obvious in the text‚ he specifically states that they “must not allow [their] [protest] to degenerate into

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    Antigone vs. Pai

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    arising again. A great example of this comes from the play Antigone by Sophocles and the film Whale Rider by Niki Caro. In both the film and the play‚ a woman of royal decent is going against a leader for what she feels is right. Although Antigone dies in the end of Antigone‚ Pai from Whale Rider convinces the leader and lives a happy life. Pai and Antigone were very similar characters because of the problems they faced. First‚ Pai and Antigone were both women who stood up to a male-led society. Second

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    Throughout Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone‚ the concept of justice is portrayed within the characters and plot in response to the main conflict in the play. This conflict arises when Antigone’s brother and Kreon’s nephew‚ Polyneices‚ was killed while attacking his home city of Thebes in an attempt to gain power from the current ruler Eteokles. Seen as an enemy of the state in Kreon’s eyes‚ Polyneices should be treated as such. Kreon’s hatred for Polyneices resulted in the decree that his nephew is to

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    Geoffrey Lo E Block 1-6-15 Heroism Antigone is born under great wealth because of her parents and her family. She lives her whole life with no struggles and she is very lucky for that. Although both her parents die‚ she still has an extremely stable future. She is about to marry her cousin Haemon and still be filthy rich‚ but‚ she was not going to let that control her life. When Antigone hears about Creon’s law against the burial of her brother Polynices‚ she knew that someone had to make things

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    Is suicide the only way to get out of hard times in life? What about your family and friends‚ how do you think they will feel about suicide? Are you feeling trap and don’t want to feel that way? In the book Antigone by Sophocles‚ Antigone‚ Haemon‚ and Eurydice committed suicide because Creon who is the ruler didn’t think before doing things. They felt trap. Suicide is a mental illness‚ so there are three important things about suicide that we need to learn and they are signs and risk factors‚ rates

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    Antigone and Girl Power

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    strength and integrity. In the play Antigone written by the Greek playwright Sophocles‚ the main character Antigone is a symbol of feminism revolt. She is nowhere near as radical as other the feminist characters of her time‚ however‚ Antigone does puts her life on expense‚ trying to stand up to the patriarchal society in which she was confined. The reader can see the man versus woman struggles through the clash Antigone has with Creon. Throughout the entire play Antigone was determined‚ she fights until

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