begin in Thebes‚ so Antigone travels there to try and stop what may become of her family and country. From my observations‚ this story can be analyzed in multiple ways‚ whether it is about the struggles of women‚ defying the higher power‚ or responding to the will of the gods. It is said that the royal family of Thebes is cursed to endure suffering‚ pain‚ death and loss. Antigone is aware of her family’s fate‚ but is ready to change her possible destiny for herself and her family. In Thebes‚ the
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regardless of what Oedipus does or believes in‚ his fate will be played out just as the gods intended. Another vivid example of humans trying to change their fate would be in Antigone. Antigone defies Cenon’s order for giving Polynices a proper burial she is punished.
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Furthermore‚ it was specifically noted this applied to Theban women‚ not Athenians‚ as referenced by translator and author John Davie‚ “actual maenadism was not a feature of Athenian cults of the gods‚ though there is clear evidence that it did exist in Thebes...Athenian women sometimes journeyed to take part in the Theban celebrations‚ but at fixed times and for a brief period‚ after which they returned to their accustomed domestic lives.” But what comes through
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about their characters? Antigone is a leader and wants to do the right thing. Ismene is a follower and is too weak to defy Creon. Ismene is passive. 3. The speeches of the Chorus interrupt the action of the play to describe the battle to the audience. What do these city elders look forward to in the future? Thebes won the
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care about what the fellow-beings on earth think of her. According to her if anything is correct then she will do that instead of it being against the laws of the land. She comes to Thebes with her sister Ismene to avoid the prophecy that their brothers are going to kill each other in a battle for the Crown of Thebes .Once her mother committed suicide and her father died she felt it as a responsibility to accompany her brothers who were ready to kill each other .She really didn’t wanted that any
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The most commonly recognized flaw would be her loyalty to the gods‚ and going against creans decrees against proper burial rights for her brother Polynesus. . Antigone’s most recognizable flaw is that she disobeyed Creon’s decrees to not let Polynesus have a proper burial because he was fighting to take over the throne instead of waiting for creon to die to gain his power over thebes. Antigone was not afraid to hide her crimes. Her devotion to the gods ultimately led to her downfall‚ but she was
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the King of Thebes‚ he was cursed and abandoned at birth; he meets with the priests of Thebes because of a plague that has fallen upon the city. Oedipus sends Creon to the oracle Delphi for instructions from the gods to see how to end the plague. Creon tells Oedipus and the priests that in order to end the plague the murder of the form king of Thebes Laius must be avenged. Oedipus then goes on to say that anyone who with holds information about the murder will be banished from Thebes‚ he prays the
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Passage one: The Chorus’ first speech‚ page 193 to 196 Passage two: Dionysus and Pentheus’ exchange‚ 206 to 209 Passage three: Dionysus’ final speech‚ 241 to 242 Euripides’ The Bacchae explores the polarities of logic and impulse that are both inherent in human nature within a world fatally lacking in balance. In evoking the very extremes of both rigorous rationale and primal instinct‚ the folly of a linear worldview is tragically rendered. In the Chorus’ emphatic exaltation of Dionysus
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Oedipus the King Sophocles Translated by David Grene CHARACTERS OEDIPUS‚ King of Thebes JOCASTA‚ His Wife CREON‚ His Brother-in-Law TEIRESIAS‚ an Old Blind Prophet PRIEST PART I: Scene: In front of the palace of Oedipus at Thebes. To the Right of the stage near the altar stands the PRIEST with a crowd of children. OEDIPUS emerges from the central door. OEDIPUS: Children‚ young sons and daughters of old Cadmus‚1 why do you sit here with your suppliant crowns?2 the town is heavy with a mingled burden
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Antigone Is about Oedipus’s three two sons Eteocles and Polynices killing each other in a conflict over who rightfully is king of Thebes. With both of the possible heirs to the throne their uncle Creon is king of Thebes. Creon passed a law stating that giving Polynices a proper burial was illegal. Creon stated that “proclamation has forbidden to dignify him with the burial‚ morning him at all” (Sophocles‚ 1109‚ 228). The reason for this law is that Polynices shared the throne with his brother for years
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