The substantial amount of power and pride Creon has mixes together to highlight the inequity between males and females and results in Creon becoming more emotional and taking everything more personal. When Creon first finds out that it is his soon to be daughter in law who is guilty, this does not stop him from punishing her, but rather angers him even more because he now knows that it is a woman who has defied his laws. Creon states "The girl is guilty of a double insolence. Who is the man here
1: Throughout Antigone, it shows many lessons and tragic stories with one being the discussion between civil law and moral law. Antigone and Creon are very different people with very different beliefs. When Polynieces dies, Antigone is required by law to keep her brother un-buried. Antigone disagrees with this and wants to bury her brother but, with Creon being her uncle, he follows civil law and is strong minded to this situation. Antigone followed her beliefs knowing the consequences and what
the play Antigone by Sophocles is one of the best known tragedies in literature. Antigone is a tale about a girl, named Antigone, that is faced with deciding between societal law or the law of the gods. She breaks societal law in reverence for the law of the gods. This illegal activity of burying her brother,Polyneices, causes the king, Creon, to order for her death. Creon’s son, Haimon, ends up falling in love with Antigone. When Antigone dies Haimon commits suicide, which causes Creon to realize
It’s apparent from the times of Antigone all the way to the times of Trifles that women are expected to maintain roles that focus on domestic duties. In both cases the men in power view the women’s duties as less important than their own. Because of the patriarch’s devaluing views of the women’s roles, the women are able to use those views to change their situations; Minnie wright escapes a painful marriage, and Antigone reforms the society's rule through Creon. The outcomes for the women as individuals
Sophocles wrote Antigone which is a play about a king and his niece. In Antigone the character are already doomed from the incest of Antigone’s father, Oedipus, and his mother. The two main characters are Antigone (protagonist) and Creon (antagonist), whose tragic flaws impact the end of the play. Antigone's tragic flaw is loyalty while Creon's tragic flaw is pride. Sophocles utilizes the three ironies for the development of characters such as Antigone and Creon, the utilization of the irony show
Analysis The play begins with the argument between the sisters Antigone and Ismene regarding the law which comes first the religious duty of populace or the civil duty? Antigone asks Ismene to join her in burying their brother Polyneices, Ismene reminds Antigone that burial is against the king’s law. Antigone denies that Creon has power in the subject of burial, a holy duty she considers bound to complete. She protests, she demonstrates that she is willing to die to do her duty to Polyneices, Antigone
Historical Analysis of Antigone by Jean Anouilh Jean Anouilh’s Antigone was first performed in a theatre in Paris, 1944. During this time, Europe was still in the midst of fighting World War II and Hitler’s Nazi-regime had already defeated and occupied France. This shift in governmental power caused dissension among the citizens of France; the population was split between those who supported France’s collaboration with Germany and those who opposed it (“1944”). As the dramatist of the play Antigone, Jean
achievement in male-dominated fields such as science and politics. However, gender roles and the defiance thereof has played a major role in not only history, but also in literature. Gender roles in literary works such as Macbeth, Brave New World, and Antigone serve to both drive the plot and influence the decisions made by