In the play, Antigone, the conflict arises when King Creon decrees that Polynices is not to receive burial rights, because Polynices decided to rebel and war against the kingdom of Thebes’ (Fitts, Fitzgerald, and Sophocles 196). However, Antigone, Polynices’ sister believes that she has the moral right to give her brother a proper burial and so defies Creon. The play examines and attempts to answer the question: When is it appropriate to choose the morally correct option over the legally correct
locked away in a cave, only to take her fate into her own hands by hanging herself. This is the fate of Antigone, the niece of the king of Thebes in the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. How she arrives at this tragic ending is result of one of the most commonly said words in the English language: “No”. Even though this one word is just a single syllable, its implications and causes in Antigone give the play its source of conflict. The fact the play is still relevant today suggests that the stubbornness
tragic hero's. Antigone, however, is a tragic heroine. In Antigone, a play written by Sophocles in the later 440's B.C., the main character Antigone has to make a enormous decision , whether to be loyal to familial ties and risk death or follow Creon's laws and live with the guilt of leaving her brother to rot in the sun. In Antigone, Antigone has a tragic flaw of being too loyal, leading to her downfall, which directly affects others proving that she is a tragic hero. In the play, Sophocles shows Antigone's
In Antigone, written by Sophocles is a play about two brothers who kill each other and one, Eteocles, would be buried as a hero to the city of Thebes and the other, Polynices, will not be buried because he was considered a traitor. One sister of Eteocles and Polynices, Antigone, has to choose between God’s rule or the king, Creon’s rule. Antigone decides to go against her uncle, the king Creon, and bury Polynices because she believes that religion and family is greater than government. Throughout
Creon and Antigone are in Sophocles' play, "Antigone," and they both possess hamartias. Antigone is an adolescent woman who is fighting the urge to do what is right even though it might cost her life. Her brother, Polyneices, rebelled against Thebes, which would result in the penalty of death. Antigone's brother perished, and she wanted to bury him, and give him a ceremony. King Creon is the king of Thebes, who denied Antigone's desire to bury her brother. Antigone was engaged to King Creon's son, who
her. Antigone had to deal with a man’s rule in the play ‘Antigone’. After Antigone’s brothers Etocles and Polyneices fought to their deaths, their uncle Creon had taken the title of being king. Creon said it was not allowed to bury Polyneices because, he saw him as a tryant for attacking thebes in order to take the crown from his brother Eteocles. Antigone on the other hand believed he deserved a proper burial to be put at peace. Her sister Ismene agreed with Creons law and thought Antigone should
holy rites. The oldest sister, Antigone, who happens to be engaged to Creon's son, wants to bury her disgraced brother, against the law, and tries to get her sister (Ismene) to help, but she refuses to.When Antigone buries her brother, she get caught. Her sister pretends that she helped because she wants to die with her sister, as that would be the punishment, but Antigone will not let her. Antigone's fiance (Creon's son) tries to convince his father to spare Antigone, but Creon will not and his son
Pericles, a prominent yet controversial Athenian politician, was satirized and criticized heavily in Sophocles’ plays, especially Oedipus the King. In fact, many of the characters in Oedipus the King refer to Pericles’ personality traits. For example, a central fault of Oedipus is his hubris, contributing greatly to his fall of power and exile from his city. Oedipus does not acknowledge any advice, which may implicate him of wrongdoing, even though it may help his city. Neither does he work with
occur in the play Sophocles Antigone, could be perceived differently in present day South Africa, due to the ruling systems in place .The high amplitude of differences between both eras creates a vast comparison between the characters, aesthetics’ and adaptions of the play as opposed to the views that are accepted and presented in present day South Africa. Present day South Africa is represented
the roles women held. 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