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
Looking at Antigone and Dallas together makes it clear that compromising values impacts and intervenes between families, but allows one to gain power expeditiously. Thus, we should realize that ethical values are important to society, and without ethics modern civilization could not function properly. While the backgrounds of these two characters differ, Creon and J.R. Ewing are indistinguishable. There is a thin line between confidence and arrogance, I find that arrogance is fairly common among
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
Sophocles introduces us to the feisty Antigone in his play of the same name. Her strong character challenges not only the tyrannical leadership of her king, Creon, but also the position that women were subjected to in ancient Athenian culture. Sophocles is able to place his female protagonist in this unique position by giving her character a heightened masculinity. While Antigone voices that her prerogative is to bury her brother in accordance with the laws of the gods, I will be arguing that her
Sophocles play, Antigone deals with the concept of a character being the tragic hero. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as someone who is neither completely virtuous nor villainous, not preeminently good and just, whose misfortune is brought about by error of judgment or frailty, and who is highly renowned and prosperous so his fall from good fortune is great enough to arouse the audience’s emotions. According to Aristotle’s definition Kreon, the king, is defined as the tragic hero of this play.
Brave New World, and Antigone serve to both drive the plot and influence the decisions made by
essence of “the glory that was Greece” (69). He argues this could be likened to an “embryonic Age of Reason” (69). McLeish also brings forth the idea that the plays written by Sophocles at this time were “nothing like” (69) those of his more well-known Antigone, Tyrannus and Oedipus. He references Elektra as being, in essence, a performance of sorrow and insanity (69), Philoctetes one of “philosophical adventure” (69) that unpacks tribute and responsibility, and Women of Trachis as a scrutiny of the morals
popular controversy. Humes challenges the fact that society should not condone laws being violated, even for justifiable reasons and should especially not be praised. In writings such as Thoreau’s essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Into the Wild, Antigone, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Humes argument is challenged and in most cases is gone
His works often examined issues of culpability passed down from generations before as evident in his extensive choral odes. Another distinctive feature of his approach was carrying thematic material between plays, creating sequels in the process, infusing his work with a unified structure. One such trilogy is Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, known collectively as the Oresteia. Considered by many to be is greatest work, the Oresteia
warn people of the tragic doom however she is always unsuccessful. One can also point out to the society around Cassandra who is unable to correctly interpret her predictions. Ancient Greeks were known to have strong sense of hospitality and relationship between the host and the guests. The sense continued during the golden period of Athens when Aeschylus wrote the play. Aeschylus played with the audience sense of hospitality and piety when introducing Cassandra in her strong personality as a stranger