Topic: How‚ exactly‚ is the conflict between the worldviews and values of Creon and Antigone resolved over the course of the play? Which side‚ if either‚ does the play as a whole endorse? The conflict between the two main characters is resolved tragically with the death of Antigone‚ her fiancé Haemon and the queen. The series of deaths leaves Creon all alone in guilt‚ regretful of what he has done and finally aware of his irredeemable mistakes. The conflict between Antigone and Creon begins with
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Imani Ali Antigone Writing Assignment Noah Eber-Schmid 5 March 2017 Conflict 3: Creon and Haemon (pages 41-49) Creon‚ as the ruler of the land‚ is obligated to carry out social order. He has ordered that the body of Polynices should be left to rot because he was a traitor to the city. Antigone has disobeyed Creon’s orders by digging up her brother’s grave after his proper burial rites were forbidden. She has already buried her parents and brother Eteocles‚ who died fighting Polynices‚ and feels
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Sophocles’ play "Antigone" portrays an uncle‚ Creon‚ and a niece‚ Antigone‚ smashing heads when their own individual loyalty contradicts each other and their beliefs. The ending justifies how loyal Antigone is to her family while Creon is loyal to the state. Sophocles illustrated Antigone has hot-headed and her loyalty to her family right from the start of the play. The play opens with Antigone discussing the burial of her deceased brother Polynices with her sister Ismene. Creon banishes anyone
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Was Antigone right to defy Creon? Throughout the history of mankind‚ people have had to make choices on whether to follow the law of the state or God’s laws. God’s laws or divine laws are any laws (or rules) that in the opinion of believers‚ comes directly from the will of God. These laws are independent of the will of man‚ who cannot change it. However it may be revealed or not‚ so it may change in human perception in time through new revelation. In the play Antigone by Sophocles‚ there is a conflict
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on the way she carries herself. According to Mama‚ when she was pulling Maggie out of the fire‚ her arms were sticking to her‚ “her hair was smoking‚ and her dress was falling off her in little black papery flakes. She is a woman that tells things how they are‚ nothing but the plain truth. She can be humorous at times and tough at others. She is self-described as “a large‚ big boned‚ woman with rough‚ man-working hands. ” Growing up poor‚ Mama had to work hard to raise her family. Maggie and
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Why is Antigone the tragic hero of the story? Antigone is the tragic hero because she chooses to bury her brother Polynices‚ even though Ceon her uncle prohibited anyone to touch his corpse and to let it decay. This shows that Antigone has a lot of loyalty towards her family and her brother. Ceon wanted Polynices to have the least honorable death‚ this is because Polynices was against Ceon and the Plebs‚ so Ceon wanted to give Eteocles a honorable burial because Eteocles was on fighting for the Plebs
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According to Aristotle‚ a tragic hero in a Greek drama must meet certain requirements. The tragic hero must be of noble birth‚ be basically good‚ must have a tragic flaw‚ and must have a moment of realization at some point in the work. Although Antigone is the namesake of the Sophocles play and is a hero in her own right‚ she is not a tragic hero. Creon is the true tragic hero of Antigone in the traditional sense of the term. Both Antigone and Creon were born of noble blood as they are members
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In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the audience experiences a catharsis wherein sympathy and fear is evoked for Creon‚ a tragic hero whose Kingship was spoilt by corruption‚ human fallibility and pride. Throughout the play‚ Creon has demonstrated how even rulers with a strong moral stance can still fail in their attempts to do good‚ unfortunately due to exceeding the limits of their humanity. To begin‚ the tragedy that befalls Creon as a man devoted to his country and to his religion seems to feel undeserved
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Creon The Tragic Hero Creon‚ a character from the Greek tragedy Antigone‚ is described as the tragic hero of the story due to the character’s flaws and the consequences that followed. Creon’s intentions are purely of nationalism for the land he rules‚ Thebbes. He forbids anyone to show respect to a violent betrayer‚ but in the process makes tragic flaws. Creon’s tragic mistakes can all be embodied by the one question he had asked his son Haemon‚ “And the city proposes to teach me how to rule
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In Antigone and The Importance of Being Earnest‚ both protagonists strive for freedom in societies where social conventions define the quality of life. Antigone‚ a teenage girl‚ fights against her male-driven society to bury her brother‚ even though she is aware of the grave consequences she will face if she does rebel against the social conventions already set in place. Jack‚ a man who lives a double life creates his second identity solely for freedom‚ and his friend‚ Algernon also has a second
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