is a strong young girl who believes in what is right must be done‚ even if it means breaking the law and going against her uncle Creon. If it means risking her life to give her brother Polynices a proper burial she is willing to do it. Using the psychological approach I thought about what would influence Antigone to be so brave and risk her life. She knew the orders Creon gave was against the orders of the Gods‚ and her brother deserved a burial. Antigone doesn’t feel that it is right for one brother
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Irony in Antigone: King Creon In the tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles pens a tale about a stalwart and distrustful king‚ Creon‚ and his misuse of the power he possesses. In the play he disregards the law of the gods to fit his whims‚ something that the heroine of the play‚ Antigone‚ wholeheartedly disagrees with; she disobeys his order to leave her dead brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied and sentences herself to death in the process. Antigone is engaged to Creon’s son‚ Haemon‚ who does not agree with his father’s
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the city or state (polis) plays in Antigone and Oedipus The King. Antigone is a play about the tension caused when two individuals have conflicting claims regarding law. In this case‚ the moral superiority of the laws of the city‚ represented by Creon‚ and the laws of the gods‚ represented bt Antigone. In contrast‚ Oedipus The King is driven by the tensions within Oedipus himself. That play both begins and concludes within the public domain‚ the plot being driven by the plague that troubles the
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Antigone In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the main conflict is civic authority versus natural law. Creon‚ the king of Thebes‚ is faced with the decision of standing by the laws he has enforced or to make the people of Thebes happy. Antigone‚ the protagonist of the play‚ countered Creon by breaking his law to not provide a burial for her brother‚ Polynices. The fundamental struggle between the protagonist and antagonist is developed according to a set pattern that theater audiences have come to recognize
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Antigone By Sophocles; translated by Ian Johnston Dramatis Personae (Fill in relationship information for each character listed.) ANTIGONE: ________________________ ISMENE: ______________________________ CREON: ____________________________ EURYDICE: ___________________________ HAEMON: __________________________ TEIRESIAS: ___________________________ Polynieces: __________________________ Eteocles: ______________________________ Oedipus: Father of Antigone‚ Ismene‚ Polynices
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family from any further embarrassment from their corrupted family history. Creon declares a law to his city that Polynices should not be buried. Those who do not obey his law will be publicly stoned. Guard saw Antigone burying Polynices which was forbidden according to Creon’s law. However‚ Creon thinks that he was bribed and will thus be killed if he doesn’t find Antigone. Guard finds Antigone and brings her to Creon to be judged for her works. Antigone confesses that
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categories to be a tragic hero. Antigone is not afraid to be a tragic hero and knows what she is doing from the very beginning. She admits it to Creon and is not afraid to pay with her life to make a point. According to Aristotle‚ The hero must suffer more than she deserves. Antigone unquestionably suffered excessively more than she ever had to. Creon decided that instead of a swift death of being executed that incipiently she was to be stoned to death. Then he decides to make it severer by ordering
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King Creon said to give Eteocles a hero’s burial and leave Polyneices to be eaten by the dogs and birds. King Creon told the kingdom that whoever tries to bury him will be sent to prison‚ but Antigone did not care to what King Creon had said and asked Ismene if she wanted to join her to go bury their brother Polyneices‚ but Ismene does not want to go against King Creon’s law so she said she will not help bury Polyneices but won’t tell anyone that Antigone is going to bury him. When King Creon is
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Thebes was once Laius and passed on to his son Oedipus. The crown somehow lands on the head of Creon‚ at the beginning of the play and corrupts the family line of royalty. Her whole life‚ Antigone has never been in control. Therefore‚ she is finally in control with the decision to bury her brother and exploiting that aspect. Antigone does what she does to gain the sympathies of the people in order to defy Creon‚ restoring the crown to the rightful heir.
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effects of the position on the king’s character. Creon reveals such ambivalent thoughts towards the kingship in his speech defending himself from Oedipus’s conspiracy accusation in Oedipus the King; these ambivalent thoughts reveal much about the nature of the kingship‚ especially in conjunction with Creon’s later actions in Antigone. In attempting to refute Oedipus’s assertion that Creon has taken part in a conspiracy to obtain the kingship‚ Creon evaluates the nature of the kingship and of his
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