views. He was a ruthless ruler and most of his citizens were compliant to him due to consternation. In Antigone‚ a play written by Sophocles‚ the actions of King Creon are closely akin to Henry VII of England. King Creon declares a decree that prohibits the burial of his nephew‚ Polynices‚ because Polynices had betrayed the city of Thebes and started a rebellion. Creon is enraged when his niece‚ Antigone‚ defies his decree and sentences her to death by entombment. Creon is tyrannical‚ selfish‚ and stubborn
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11/5/13 English 111 Antigone Paper Antigone: Individual vs. State The conflict between individual conscious and state law is something mankind has endured since the beginning of history. There have been many individuals that have stood by their beliefs and conscious against government law despite the repercussions. This conflict is one of the main struggles in Antigone‚ the Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. At the center of this tragedy is the battle between an individual’s moral duty and
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King Lear Comparison A tragedy is not only an imitation of life in general but an imitation of an action‚ as Aristotle defined his ideas in the Poetics‚ which presents Oedipus as an ultimate tragic hero. There is a obvious link between the two characters in that blindness – both literal and metaphorical – is a strong theme in the stories. Issues of self-recognition and self-knowledge are significant for Oedipus as well as King Lear. For Aristotle‚ Reversal‚ Recognition and Suffering are key
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Sophocles’ Oedipus the King was considered by Aristotle to be the faultless model of a tragedy. The reason Aristotle considered Oedipus the King to be matchless was due to the fact that it flawlessly adhered to his stringent criteria of an effective tragedy. In Aristotle’s The Poetics he describes how Oedipus the King meets his principles of dramatic composition by its use of a complex plot‚ simultaneous discovery and reversal and finally the character of Oedipus (291). Aristotle’s principles of
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Antigone Creon is the king in the play Antigone. Antigone is about a princess‚ Antigone‚ who buries her brother after he and her other brother fought each other to death. As a result‚ King Creon wants to punish/kill Antigone for this while still him remembering that he had raised her. Due to the brothers fighting to death‚ a place to be king opened up for Creon to become the new king. The quote‚ “Where love rules‚ there is no will to power; and where power predominates‚ there love is lacking. The
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Antigone Essay Creon and Antigone are both honorable people‚ yet both are fatally proud and that is the source of the tragedy. To what extent do you agree? The source of tragedy in Antigone by Sophocles cannot be simply attributed to the downfall of the two characters‚ Creon and Antigone. Creon and Antigone both have a very strong will and can both be very stubborn towards people‚ Creon by refusing to listen to other people and Antigone very determined to fight for what she wants which is to
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Emotions and Free Will in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King Sophocles’ play brings up the complex issues about the relationship between human’s free will and fate predestined by the Gods. It examines the nature of human confidence to defy fate as well as human’s limited ability against the unknown force that they do not completely understand (p. 609). Several remarks were made in the play to question the authority of the divine powers. If the prophecies are wrong‚ however‚ how could the play
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family‚ but it also tackles larger issues regarding American national values. The play examines the cost of blind faith in the American Dream. In this respect‚ it offers a postwar American reading of personal tragedy in the tradition of Sophocles’ Oedipus Cycle. Miller charges America with selling a false myth constructed around a capitalist materialism nurtured by the postwar economy‚ a materialism that obscured the personal truth and moral vision of the original American Dream described by the country’s
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Introduction Sophocles’ King Oedipus is a controversial yet transformative work of literature. A masterpiece of its time and even now‚ in a modern society its strong themes are widely applicable. One‚ if not the most provoking themes in this tragedy is fate. Fate as it is eminently implicated in King Oedipus challenges all that we believe. Sophocles upsets with magnificent accuracy one’s reasoning of fate and free will. Shaking the thought of fate as god of our lives‚ we need to understand all
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Sophocles’ Oedipus the King tells the story of the Theban King Oedipus who finds out that he unknowingly fulfilled a prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother. Upon learning this news‚ he is distraught and ashamed. Euripides’ Heracles tells the story of the famous hero who kills his wife and children after Hera makes him go mad. Both stories are tragedies‚ which are texts that present issues that are ethically serious and represent a series of actions in the plot that culminates in the
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