Jana Zschoche Social Foundations I (Mon & Wed 12:30-1:45; Bldg. WAVE Room 431) September 10, 2014 Antigone (1.) Writing in complete sentences and in your own words, identify three main ideas in Sophocles’ Antigone: A. Sophocles’ Antigone highlights the potential for power to corrupt an individual, rendering them unable to see past themselves. Creon illustrates this as he takes on the leadership of Thebes, attempting to rule but also allowing the position to make him too stubborn and dismissive
people from earlier generations and have proved to be successful. In addition to this idea, just because a person is from the past doesn’t mean their ideas are wrong. A person can have wrong ideas if they’re young or old. Age does not always play a role in the validity of somebody’s
so obvious, and many have lost in the eyes of his people. Second, Creon guided by a sense of pride and did not want to undergo breaking the law. An important role was played by the fact that the person who dared to oppose a woman. Such a situation even more offended his pride and thus was not able to do otherwise than condemn to kill Antigone. However, the king of Thebes, he did not
down the reasons why men should seek to govern their own actions by justice rather than legality. Thoreau’s refusal to pay taxes was a paradigm of civil disobedience. It was a civic act, the resistance of a person in his capacity as a citizen under government. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thought and actions of such notable figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 20th century, it was proven that nonviolent resistance can be more efficient than
pride in the form of literature. Not only has the Western Civilization gained a sense of heroic pride, from literature, they have also gained literary characters such as a protagonist and antagonist. While Sophocles’ was in the process of writing Antigone, he developed a protagonist and antagonist (Fiero, pg. 98). The protagonist is the main character, while the antagonist is the one that is going against the protagonist. Both of this literary terms are still relevant among literature in today’s