Antigone It takes a lot of courage to stand up and defend an action or idea that is forbidden by society. This is what Antigone does in Sophocles’ story Antigone. She clearly disobeys King Creon’s order that no person should bury Antigone’s brother‚ Polynices‚ which is punishable by penalty of death. In this case‚ though‚ is Antigone’s decision the correct one? Her actions affect many of her other countrymen negatively; they cause problems within the royal family‚ disagreement among the people
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Blurred Lines “I turn me I know not where For my plans ill-sped‚ And a doom that is heavy to bear Is come down on my head.” Creon Both sacred and secular laws are broken as boundaries are crossed by the feuding family members in Sophocles’s play‚ Antigone. Rebelling against his gods and people‚ Creon‚ who took the throne after his nephews died in their own civil war‚ fights for total control. Meanwhile‚ Antigone defies the state of Thebes so as “not [to] prove disloyal” to the oldest Greek laws
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Heroes come in many forms. Some heroes are immense in size and strength like Hercules. Some are shunned upon like Harriet Tubman. Some are deaf and blind like Helen Keller. Some are Jewish victims of the Holocaust like Anne Frank. Others stand up for what they believe is right like Rosa Parks. Certain characteristics set them apart from the rest. Antigone is a tragic hero in the Greek play called Antigone. A tragic hero is character who is dignified and superior and whose downfall is caused by a
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thought process. This interaction causes the king to believe Ismene is mad and wants to commit them both as criminals (Lines 526‚ 530-531). Ismeme pleads with Creon‚ showing her inferiority‚ to save her sisters life. She even brings up the fact that Haemon‚ Creons son‚ and Antigone were supposed to get married. Ismenes actions make her seem desperate and give Creon the opportunity to make her look guilty to the
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In the play Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles‚ foil and parallel characters are very common. The foil character in a story is the character who is the exact opposite of the main character‚ or in other word‚ the parallel character‚ and therefor serves to magnify certain characteristics of the main character. Such characters for example could be Ismene‚ the foil character and Antigone‚ the parallel character. Ismene is cowardly and prefer to follow the rules‚ while Antigone is much more
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Antigone Antigone deals with the conflicts arising from three demands made upon the human psyche: the demands of religion (Zeus); the demands of the state (Thebes); and the demands of human instincts (Aphrodite). Characters like Antigone represent how firm beliefs and a strong sense of religion can impact an individual’s thoughts and actions. When Antigone was put before King Creon to defend herself she says to him “But all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded
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Antigone. The character of Dimmesdale and Creon both share some feeling of guilt on what they did. Dimmesdale is guilty of commiting adultery and he doesn’t want to reveal it while Creon is guilty of his decisions and on what he had done to his son‚ Haemon and his wife‚ Eurydice which was their death. This tells the reader that The Scarlet Letter can be connected from the other text that has been read before and or based on their own
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him--” (Sophocles 1106). Antigone sneaks out and gives her brother a proper burial. Once Creon finds out that Antigone went against his edict he locks her up in a dark‚ musky cell. Not long after Antigone commits suicide by hanging herself. After Haemon‚ Creon’s son‚ hears about his fiancés‚ Antigones‚ death he kills
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Caroline Cundiff Mrs. Nancy Diepenbrock AP English IV 16 September 2014 Creon as a Tragic Hero “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart‚ and all they can do is stare blankly.” This quotation written by F. Scott Fitzgerald centuries after the famous Greek playwrights directly correlates to Aristotle’s characteristics of a tragic hero. In the Greek Tragedy‚ Antigone by Sophocles‚ the king‚ Creon‚ displays the qualities that fit Aristotle’s
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