conflict with one another. Your culture and the people around you may be telling you to do one thing‚ while in your heart; you feel that a different way is the way to go. This is exactly what happens in Sophocles’ play Antigone. Ismene‚ Haimon‚ and Creon all have a difficult time choosing between following what their conscience is saying and what society thinks‚ which leads to conflict between the characters. Ismene faces this conflict of conscience vs. society when deciding whether to help Antigone
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man.” Pride is the deadly sin of superiority that breeds conceit and arrogance and is the most known characteristic of a poor leader. No literary piece better illustrates this point than Sophocles’ classic story‚ Antigone. In this tragic story‚ King Creon of Thebes is a prideful monarch who rules with an unyielding approach. Due to his arrogance and excessive pride‚ he is unwilling to abide by the laws of the gods‚ disregards the advice of others and is unable to see the errors of his own ways until
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is anxiously trying to appeal her sentence. The music makes the audience drawn is drawn to feel sympathy and pity her when she is preaching her views on death. For instance‚ a solemn melody is played when Haemon’s dead corpse is brought to King Creon. Creon grieves by himself as he is overcome with devastation caused by his foolish actions; his emotions are intensified by the sorrowful and sombre background music. The music is able to complement the play‚ while accentuating the more significant events
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pilgrimage. During the pilgrimage they tell each other stories to pass time. The Knight’s Tale is one of the tales. The tale is about a Duke named Theseus who finds some grieving widows on his way home to Athens. When he sees the women they tell him that Creon‚ the leader of Thebes‚ has killed their noble husbands and would not let them have a proper funeral. Theseus takes action
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had come to her fate and hanged herself. The second major example of free will in the play comes when Creon decides to punish Antigone and refuses to change his mind‚ which causes him to lose his wife and son. In my first quote‚ Creon is stating Antigone’s punishment. “I will carry her far away out there in the wilderness and lock her in the living vault of stone” (pg.223). In this quote Creon had his mind set on locking both sisters up but after a little reasoning he let Ismene free and sent Antigone
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Alienation and Awareness Corinth‚ where the events of The Medea unravel in‚ is a society that regards the atypical as threatening and gives hardly any rights to women and foreigners – a common characteristic of Athenian societies during the play’s publication. Since Medea is part of the two groups in Athenian society that are treated discriminatorily and her cleverness is seen as menacing‚ the rulers of Corinth want to exile her almost immediately upon Jason’s betrothal to the princess of Corinth
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In the play Antigone‚ your choices have consequences is a recurring theme. The play shows that every choice you make has an effect and what fuels those choices. For Antigone Hubris or Pride fueled her to make her decisions. (you can elaborate on it) In the play a rule was made that no one was allowed to bury Polyneices’ body‚ but because of Antigone’s Pride she buried him anyways. >FIND A QUOTE OR EVIDENCE FROM THE PLAY AND PUT IT IN HERE! SOMETHING SUPPORTING THAT STATEMENT < It was said that Antigone
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2. Sophocles presents a complex personality in the character of Creon. For this topic‚ you will complete a literary analysis of Creon’s character. Analyze his behavior in light of his sometimes conflicting duties as a king‚ a father‚ an uncle‚ and a husband. Refer to specific incidents from the play in your analysis and consider one of the schools of literary theory in your response. 3. Haimon might have chosen to kill Creon or to remain alive. Instead‚ he kills himself. Do you view this
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Antigone’s Bad Decision The play Antigone is a story‚ where the tragic hero Creon is forced to make important decisions because Antigone covered her brother’s body with dust. It was a bad idea on the part of Antigone because she broke a law and was punished for it. Also because Antigone’s actions led to the deaths of three innocent people. Sophocles conveys the conflict to the reader to whether it was right or wrong for Antigone to cover her brother’s body. The fact that it was a law for Antigone
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of his uncertainty and lack of knowledge‚ Oedipus’s actions become brazen and unjust. Showing his lack of knowledge of all the facts‚ he accuses Teirisias and Creon of conspiring to dethrone him‚ even though they are innocent. Creon tells Oedipus‚ “If you think that stubbornness without sense is a good gift you are not wise” (126). Here‚ Creon points out Oedipus’s rash judgment and persistence‚ yet Oedipus continues to be stubborn. Oedipus’s refusal to stop and admit that he is wrong exemplifies his
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