Truth in the Eyes of Justice Greek theater encompassed many aspects that reflected the moral values and ideals of society. Their customs were tightly woven into the scripts of plays. Antigone and Oedipus the King‚ two renowned works of the Greek playwright Sophocles‚ explore these values through a plot thick with corruption‚ virtue‚ and determination. These plays reveal the burdens two Theban kings‚ Oedipus and Creon‚ as their lies and poor judgment corrode the integrity of their city‚ their
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Reading response-Antigone In the story of Antigone‚ we see the struggles between right and wrong or individual and government‚ and the conflicts between the males and females. In the other words‚ Antigone ‚ a woman‚ are supposed to have no her own opinions to the her world. She should follow the laws which are made by men. Nevertheless‚ she believes the god’s laws should be more important than the others. What makes this story so special? Antigone‚ a Femal‚ challenges to the male’s
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This is evident in the act of disobedience displayed by Antigone when she buried her brother Polynices. Her uncle Creon instituted a law that forbade anyone to weep for or bury her slain brother. Antigone felt that this was wrong and asked her sister Ismene for assistance in their brother’s burial. Ismene did not want to help because she feared what
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By displaying Antigone’s morality and burying Antigone’s brother‚ Polynices‚ despite the consequences‚ Antigone eventually got the city to get on Antigone’s side. Antigone’s city‚ although the people were originally against Antigone‚ eventually saw Antigone’s reasons why Antigone buried Polyneices and why Creon‚ who was
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Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex). Despite his efforts to avoid this terrible fate‚ it came to pass. When Oedipus learned what he had inadvertently done‚ he gouged out his own eyes and was banished from Thebes. Before dying‚ he prophesied that his two sons‚ Polynices and Eteocles‚ would kill each other in the battle for Thebes (see Oedipus at Colonus). This‚ too‚ comes to pass. Yet when the prophet Tiresias visits Creon in Antigone‚ he comes to deliver a warning‚ not an unavoidable prophecy. He says that Creon
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Antigone’s Room. She sits with her head bowed. Enter Creon. Creon: Antigone. You are the daughter of a traitor - Oedipus. While you wait upon your judgment to be dealt‚ please tell me. Tell me why you have done what cannot be undone and damned yourself to this fate. Antigone: I do not feel damned. I do not lie here and claim my actions as regrets for they were of my own will. I believe that I have done what is right for my family and to the gods. I have stood up and apart from those that condemn
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she would inevitably face whereas her father chooses to do otherwise. The king’s choice to follow his political obligation is illustrated by his orders to a herald to forbid any funeral rites or burial to the corpse of Antigone’s second brother- Polynices‚ when he says "Let him lie unwept‚ unburied‚ a toothsome morsel for the birds of heaven‚ and whoso touches him shall perish by the cruel death of stoning." This is in contrast to the actions taken by Antigone. Her decision to exhibit loyalty towards
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be wearing messy clothes to show he is a worker. All of these features show that the sentry is at the ‘bottom’ of the hierarchy and this is shown through his thin look. When the sentry first enters to tell Creon what has happened to the body of Polynices it is obvious
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Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men. Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone conveys the importance of morality over the rulings of the state through its setting of Ancient Thebes and Antigone’s moral conflict with King Creon’s law. Creon‚ orders the body of Polynices not to be buried since Creon considered him a traitor. However‚ Antigone ignores Creon’s edict and properly buries her brother‚ giving him the eternal peace she believes he deserves. Antigone’s view that Creon’s law is unjust and that the laws of
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