different each passing is but also expresses how each passing has beauty unique to itself. In Antigone, the concept of mortal law vs. divine law becomes a conflict in the play. Death, Sacrifice and love are expressed and become a factor between the two laws. Death is expressed with Creon’s decree of leaving a dead body on the surface, Sacrifice is expressed with Antigone’s final stand and decisions made by Antigone and Haimon. Love is expressed with the ultimate decision by Haimon and Eurydice. Cowards
Women In Sophocle's Antigone Sophocle's Antigone draws a comparison between the way women were perceived in ancient Greek society and the way his main character, Antigone departed from the established perception. In ancient Greek society, men were believed to be the primary authority and women as their subordinates. This is also noteworthy that the word "patriarchy", itself is a Greek word. Sophocle, in Antigone has tried to break all conventions with the portrayal of Antigone as a rebel and hero
IS SOPHOCLES’S ANTIGONE A PERFECT TRAGEDY? WHY OR WHY NOT? Sophocles is a prehistoric Greek critic and logician, who wrote one of the supreme stories of all era, Antigone. Sophocles is as well said to be an individual of the utmost minds in the early world. This essay discusses about Antigone accomplishments and period of Sophocles. The effort of Sophocles is well thought-out the excellence of tragedy. He is questionably the most excellent, antique, and contemporary day tragedian author yet to
Love, Death, and Traitors. Oh my! A discussion on the Greek Drama, Antigone In Antigone’s family “Traitors” are pretty common. With her older brother Polyneices gathering an army to attack Thebes, Antigone going against the king’s orders by burying her brother, and Ismene, who didn’t support her sister in burying their brother, was excluded from Antigone’s list of her family. The family is made, almost entirely, of traitors. Also the way that love plays into the drama and the way bad luck is
In the play Antigone, Sophocles introduces a major theme of rebellion in the play’s protagonist, Antigone. The plot develops following the death of Antigone’s brothers. Both of her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, died in battle, but the strange part is that they were fighting against each other for their father’s throne. Succeeding their deaths, the King, Creon, orders that Eteocles is the only brother to get a proper burial and funeral. Polyneices, as a result, is to be left untouched and without
Creons pride into condemning her. At the beginning of the play we are introduced to Antigone, she is not your Classical Greek women, the play is based around a time where women were not close to being equal to men, and were not to have an opinion. In Greek Mythology Pride is a trait despised by the gods and punished without mercy - There is no question that pride, in Antigone, is a trait loathed by the gods. Antigone wants to bury her brother who was involved in a war with his other brother who were
Sophocles' Oedipus the king and Antigone both underline the concept of hubris and how it could lead to one’s downfall. In Oedipus, the king, a plague has reached Thebes and Oedipus is determined to end it, and finds out from Tiresias that Oedipus himself is the plague and has completed the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mother even though he tried to run away from that cruel fate. Oedipus cannot believe his situation and blames Creon and Tiresias for colluding against him, his disillusion
able to live in a community. However, our obligations may sometimes come in the way of another’s sense of truth, or wisdom; what then? How should one manage, deal, and encounter this conflict? That is the main problem. We will see what the readings Antigone by Sophocles and Siddhartha by Hesse both teach us about how to address the conflict. We can argue that when one is confronted with this conflict, one can attain happiness if he or she questions him or herself whether the obligation and the solutions
over somebody’s personal life. Sophocles tries to convey the same ideas through his play Antigone. Using Sophocles’ Antigone, I will talk about citizenship from the perspectives of 2 pivotal characters i.e. Antigone and Creon; in what ways do these two differ from each other, providing textual evidence in support of each view, and at the end I will try to define ideal citizenship, keeping in mind the play Antigone. For Creon, the king of Thebes, citizenship was about obeying the authority and failing
Oedipus Rex or Antigone, which is more tragic? The answer to this question is based on a matter of opinion. If I had to choose, I would choose both because both Theban stories are tragic. Sure in Antigone more deaths occur but the number of deaths in the story do not make a story more tragic. For example, pretend that you are watching a movie, and it shows you a character. Later this film shows you some vital decisions and conflicts of the character but in the end she or he gets punished or dies