though king Creon publicly announced that anyone who tried to bury Polyneices would be punished Antigone still disobeyed him. I do
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current king‚ creon‚ she is also engaged to the son of the king making her a princess giving her high standing. Among the citizens of thebes she is not only
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Antigone as a good‚ principled woman who is wronged by the dogmatic‚ inflexible Creon. But if you had to defend Creon’s actions‚ what would you say? Does he have any justifiable reason for acting the way he does? As Creon states in Sophocles Antigone: “Whoever places a friend above the good of his own country‚ he is nothing…” (Meyer 1490). As I was reading Antigone I could not help but think “this play should be called Creon rather than Antigone”. Creon’s role in this play is a huge part of the narrative
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The struggle balance between what is right and wrong has been taking place for many centuries. While the conflicts have differed over the years‚ the the war between what is right and wrong has always been about perspective. One example of this is shown through the play Antigone by Sophocles. Within the play there are two characters who foil each other for what they believe is right. Therefore‚ they believe that they are self justified‚ while the opposite party views there actions negatively. This
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a disastrous fate" (Antigone Pg.14). Creon acting a classical tragic as well as Antigone‚ a sophoclean tragic heroes‚ both personify their personalities through their actions.
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husband‚ and they said this lady going to hang in front everyone in the city center. Antigone disobeyed and broke Creon law‚ and she got punished to death.
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Cedric M. Escobia BSEd-Eng. 2 Oedipus Rex (Script) Characters: Oedipus Jocasta Creon Tiressias Sheperd Messenger Narration: The play begins with the city of Thebes suffering appallingly. After Oedipus freed the people from the plague brought on them by the presence of the dreadful sphinx some years ago‚ another deadly pestilence is raging all over the city. Now‚ a bevy of priests and citizens come to the royal palace to ask their king of what to
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Rex Trilogy which tells the storyof Antigone‚ the daughterof Oedipus‚ after her father’s death. The story opens at the endofa battle between Antigone’s brothers‚Eteocles and Polyneices‚ for control of Thebes. Both brothers died in the battle‚ but Creon‚ the new king of Thebes‚ has declared that while Eteocles should be buried with honors Polyneices body should be left unburied. This is a severe punishmentfor Polyneices since the Greeks believed that one could not go to the afterlife unless one’s
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conflicts of man vs. man‚ man vs. himself‚ and man vs. supernatural and in the end reveals his real identity thus fulfilling his prophecy. Man vs. Man Oedipus meets Teirias he then meets with his brother in law Creon for yet another man vs. man conflict. The conflict again Creon is Oedipus who still is unaware of who he really is again is trying to seek answers to find out who murdered King Laois. Teirias left Oedipus on not such good terms thus leaving Oedipus to think someone was trying to
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but the audience knows it is actually not the case. An example of dramatic irony would be one of the king Creon’s statements. The Sentry comes to reveal that Creon’s law had been broken‚ and Polyneices had been buried. Creon then asks‚ "And the man who dare do this?"(Scene 1‚ 88). Creon assumes the perpetrator was a man when‚ in fact‚ the audience knows that Antigone had committed the crime. This reveals Creon’s thinking that no one but a man would commit a crime like that. This hints further conflict
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