In Sophocles play Antigone‚ Creon is the king of Thebes and the uncle of Antigone and her siblings. Creon is a character that will do anything to earn absolute power‚ and once acquired‚ abuses this newly found power and ultimately harms those around him. His haughty attitude‚ disregard of the authority of the gods‚ and failure to realize his destructive behavior cause the downfall of those around him‚ including the ones he cares deeply for. Using Creon’s mistakes as an example of an overuse of power
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the mid 400’s B.C.E Sophocles‚ an ancient Greek philosopher‚ wrote a radically new play that discussed many philosophical topics. The contrast of fate and free will appears many times and is a key theme in his play Oedipus Rex. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles weighs in on his opinions on this topic. Sophocles utilizes fate as a key component of his play Oedipus rex to develop Oedipus and influence the reader to sympathize with him. With the cruel and inevitable fate of Oedipus‚ Sophocles can make Oedipus
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In Antigone by Sophocles (406-496 B.C.) there were many instances where gender inequality was present. I have decided to write my paper on the second option‚ which asks us to analyze Antigone’s defiance and to also explain gender representation in Antigone. First I will discuss whether or not I felt that Antigone’s defiance was political or just an act of love for her brother. I will discuss how women were treated and viewed during this time especially Antigone. If there were any instances where
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In his play Antigone‚ Sophocles presents the conflict of choosing between family loyalty and obeying the law of the land. The playwright clearly believes that loyalty to one’s family trumps listening to the law and it shines through as the right choice. In the novella “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka‚ there is a lack of family loyalty shown towards the protagonist‚ Gregor Samsa‚ who has shown immense allegiance to his parents and sister. In Antigone‚ several of the characters are loyal either to the
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strong feeling about Sophocles and the tragedy that happened to Oedipus which I have similar thoughts on. Rebecca is an intense reader and can’t wrap her head around things when it comes to confusing situations. David Denby makes a good argument on whether or not Oedipus had a wrong ending in the story of Sophocles. “He didn’t know he was killing his father”. Oedipus couldn’t be held responsible for the death of his father because he never knew. The whole passage of Sophocles was to ultimately lead
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In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles‚ the Greek audience experiences Oedipus’ heartbreaking journey to find out who he really is and how his hubris and many other fatal flaws contribute to his downfall. The Greeks loved a good tragedy and Oedipus Rex did not disappoint. In this play Oedipus was put on a mountaintop as a baby because his birth parents‚ King Laïos and Queen Iocastê‚ were told that one day Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. To prevent this from happening King Laïos
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naive hero whose understanding of his surroundings is opposed to what is truly happening to him or her. What makes this ironic is that the author is creating a deluded main character in order to make the audience more aware of his reality. In both Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis this method is used in order to create an ironic world for their hero‚ where neither Oedipus nor Gregor are fully informed of their tragic standing in their world. The use of dramatic irony in both of
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How does Sophocles explore the use of contrast in his play King Oedipus? ¬The use of contrast by Sophocles in his play King Oedipus allows the audience the ability to see into the multifaceted layers that possess his characters. Being both physically and metaphorically blind is a motif that is both ironic and somewhat cruel in nature‚ due to the circumstances to which this physical blindness is acquired‚ and the latter is bygone. The contrast between the piety and god fearing nature of Creon and
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Ancient Greeks‚ a playwright named Sophocles based one of his plays on the topic of conformity. The play was called Antigone and was based on a girl with a royal background who purposely defies the law to stand up to their beliefs and buries her brother Polyneices despite the king’s proclamation. Many centuries later‚ Martin Luther King would be delivering a sermon on the topic of conformity which reflected many of Sophocles’
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accordance with what the gods wanted. His stubbornness kept him from listening to Haemon‚ even though his son tried to persuade Creon from executing Antigone. Sophocles intentionally has Creon lose everything towards the end of the play to show the consequences of confusing his own law with what the gods would want. In his play Antigone‚ Sophocles shows the danger in being too stubborn and self-reliant a ruler‚ as well as mixing human law with divine law by presenting a proud‚ overbearing ruler in Creon
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