ANTIGONE KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING This tragedy is set against the background of the Oedipus legend. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus‚ founder of Thebes‚ and the father of Laius‚ whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother‚ Jocasta‚ as well as the double fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices. Furthermore‚ Antigone dies after defying King Creon. The play is set in Thebes‚ a powerful city-state north of Athens
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Book of the Dead: The Singer of Amun Nany’s Funerary Procession The Book of the Dead is a textual and visual piece of art that focuses on the funerary aspects of ancient Egypt. One of the parts I liked best in the Book of the Dead at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the scene of Nany and her passage to the afterlife. I am going to break down this section‚ and address the different characters and symbols‚ both formally and contextually. I will describe not just what is seen on the surface‚ but
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“Antigone” is a Greek tragedu by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschyius’ “Seven Against Thebes” ends. “Antigone” is typical of the drama of ancient Greece and there are many evident features that support this. Ancient Greek drama is literary work with dialogue written in verse (really) and by actors such as Creon and Haeman speak in shifted tones of tension that prevail conflict. Another element of Ancient Greek
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argument because Creon is doing justice and punishing the one who is disloyal to the city. Reasonableness dies out due to the harshness of the rule. The second main assertion of the character is about the punishment of the Antigone for denying the Theban rule established by King about the burial of her brother. Creon wanted to punish Antigone for violating the state law and burying her brother. He supported his argument by providing proper proof for it. He mentioned the fact that this is only Antigone
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Euripides Euripides was born in Athens‚ Greece‚ around 485 B.C. He was born to a wealthy family. He wrote dramatic plays and is suspected of writing 90 plays‚ but only 19 of those have survived. Euripides first competed with his plays in 455 B.C. and he won his first competition in 441 B.C. Aeschylus and Sophocles were another dramatist who came several years before Euripides. Sophocles won 18 competition and Aeschylus won 14 competitions while Euripides only won four competitions. Even though he
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lot of emotions to the audience and captures their attention and shows them the ending to the story. Anagnorisis meaning recognition‚ is when the tragic hero suddenly realizes the terrible truth. In Oedipus Rex it happens when the Messenger and the Theban Shepherd make Oedipus realize that he’s unwittingly fulfilled the prophecy he’s struggled to avoid. One of the things that makes Aristotle think the play is so great is that the anagnoris is directly caused by the peripeteia. The words of the Messenger
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values with flying colors‚ intelligence and glory shown at war‚ hospitality shown in the land of the Cimmerians. However‚ his loyalty was questioned in the land of the Cimmerians. Odysseus and his men had gone down to learn how to return to Ithaca from Theban Tiresias‚ when his lure to get Tiresias to talk had also brought up other people who had passed away. One of those people had been his mother‚ who had raised him to become the man he is today. In ancient greece‚ you must always be loyal to family
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What does Antigone ask Ismene to help her do? Bury Polyneices’ body 11. What does Ismene do when Antigone asks her for help? She refuses‚ and is unsuccessful in persuading Antigone not to do the deed 12. Who does the Chorus consist of? The Theban elders 13. Which of these values does Creon praise in his initial speech to the Chorus? Loyalty to the state 14. The Sentry character can be seen as an experiment. In the context of Greek drama‚ what is unusual about this character? His speech
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perspective of one of Socrates’ students‚ Phaedo of Elis. Having been present at Socrates’ death bed‚ Phaedo relates the dialogue from that day to Echecrates‚ a fellow philosopher. By engaging in dialectic with a group of Socrates’ friends‚ including the Thebans Cebes and Simmias‚ Socrates explores various arguments for the soul’s immortality in order to show that there is an afterlife in which the soul will dwell following death. Phaedo tells the story that following the discussion‚ he and the others were
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Catharsis is the audience and the people of Theban empathize with Creon for try to correct his wrongdoings. The last section of the chorus talks about Creon “that‚ seeing the stricken heart/Of pride brought down‚ /we learn when we are old”(162). It took Creon to lose his family to understand his
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