In this scene, Haemon confronts Creon over his merciless treatment of Antigone and Creon’s reaction is to explode into an ageist themed rant against his own son, in which Creon finally blows up and calls Haemon a “degenerate” for “bandying accusations” (lines 830-831) against him. Not only is Creon calling his own son an inexperienced, inadequate fool, he earlier in the scene describes Antigone as a “worthless woman” and tells Haemon to “show me the man who runs his household well” (lines 725-739). Each of these statements not only denounce a woman’s worth and status in comparison to a man, but also succeed in fluffing Creon’s ego when he follows with “I’ll show you someone fit to rule the state”(line 740), again stating how “qualified” and “adept” a ruler he believes himself to be. Shortly after this discussion, Creon changes Antigone's punishment from public stoning to being suffocated in a tomb. This change hints that Haemon’s words may have affected Creon enough to make him doubt the populaces affection for him.
Antigone is very strong-willed person when it comes to what she believes in. When Creon says, "And yet you dared defy the law," Antigone says "I dared. " Antigone shows not to be afraid of the king. The rules given by the King, in Antigone's words, were not "God's proclamation"; this hints that Antigone is a religious person when comes to her beliefs.
oh look at him, Bearing his own damnation in his arms” (Antigone Exodos. 84-85). He is saying ‘Look what has happened to Creon’. He has payed for his arrogance with the death of his niece, son, and wife; that being his tragic fall, caused by his
INTRODUCTION: Open your argument to the audience and give them reason to listen on. I. Hook (Opening Statement): Get your audience’s attention! Consider a quote from the story. Are there any circumstances in which the law should be ignored?
“But I will bury him, and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death, and I shall be as dear to him as he to me.” (Prologue 2. 57-60) Antigone’s willingness to die for her cause enables one to believe that her actions show strength and courage. However, her prideful spirit still prevents her from listening to her sister Ismene’s voice of reason. Antigone does not fully see the extent of her actions and who they could affect.
The scene thorough lines 450 to 540 involve Creon and Antigone in a furious argument. With Creon’s ruthless attitudes he condemns her for her actions however, Antigone seems to be indomitable and fights back. They’re arguing due to the fact that Antigone wants to bury her fallen brother, Polynicies, while Creon has prohibited the burial. In Creon’s mind, everyone from Thebes should hail the estate and obey his orders, while many disagrees with him, only Antigone has the courage to follow the gods rules and honor her family. “Because it wasn’t Zeus who pronounced these things to me.”
By dying with her brother, Antigone feels like she would be more content than living on her own knowing that her brother is not being respected in his death. Similarly in Anouilh’s version of the play, Creon shows that his actions and his decisions are motivated by family loyalty as well. Creon attempts to save Antigone’s life from his own capital punishment since she is family to him. During Antigone’s imprisonment, Creon speaks with her,
The story of Antigone presented us with characters from both extremes of the stubbornness scale. Antigone’s main motivation was her love/loyalty to her family and her value of god’s law over man kind’s law. King Creon decided that law and order was the best thing the country needed after the aftermath of the civil war Antigone’s brother started. He saw it as his job to bring the community happiness because the citizens needed a strong and firm leader. To him, the law is more important than anything else, including family and religious law.
The first section of Antigone I chose begins with line 997 and ends at line 1022. This excerpt is within an episode of the play because it is a smaller section of the connected series depicting the events following Antigone’s burying of her brother. In this particular episode, Creon has just told the guards to take Antigone away to her tomb as punishment for her burying of her brother Polynices. Antigone gives her defenses as to why she was so adamant on burying her brother, and the chorus intervenes at some points in her monologue. In her monologue, Antigone says her farewell to the people of Thebes as she is dragged off to her tomb.
In this short essay you will read about, the comparison between the play “Antigone” and “Erin Brockovich.” Antigone is a play based on the death and burial of Antigone’s brother Polyneices. Erin Brockovich is a movie based mostly on the hards times of being a single mother. In the following paragraph I will be comparing the conflicts, injustices, and discrimination, that each Antigone and Erin Brockovich face as the course of the play/movie progresses. Antigone faces many conflicts during the play.
In the story, the relationship between Antigone and Creon is very important and contrasts greatly. If they had found a way to resolve their differences, the story may have ended differently. The tension between these two characters is based on Creon’s actions and thoughts in regard to Antigone’s brothers and the brother she buried. Creon left Polyneices, her brother, to rot outside of the city. He commanded that if anyone buried Polyneices, they would be put to death.
Birds are often a carefree symbol of nature that indicates freedom and peace. Yet, in Sophocles’ Antigone, the most common birds mentioned by Sophocles are the carrion birds that feed upon the decomposing body of Polyneices. The carrion birds’ appearance correlates with that of Creon’s actions against the gods. Creon had refused to bury Antigone’s brother, Polyneices, because he had attacked the city of Thebes. Nevertheless, the Greeks considered not giving the dead a proper burial to be an insult of pride, and the action would result in the spirit going to the underworld, which was an offense to the gods.
Jaanvi Shah Mr. Eyre English 9 March, 2015 Literary Analysis of Antigone John Foster says, “pride comes before fall.” As the action of the Sophocles 's Antigone unfolds, it is clear that the protagonist Creon has all the six characteristics of a tragic hero. Teiresias interactions with Creon help to demonstrate three of those typical traits: Creon’s noble stature, his tragic flaw of having pride and arrogance, and his free choice that makes his downfall his own fault. Creon, the King of Thebes, accords with Aristotle’s theory of a tragic hero beginning as powerful distinguished and important person.
Antigone’s love is so great for her brother that she went against the king and buried him with religious rights. Then Haemon kills himself because Antigone had died and he wanted to be with her. In the end Creon’s wife killed herself because her son had died. Creon is perceived as the tragic hero of the play when he is talking
What “tragic ideas” do we see expressed in Sophocles’ drama? Answer with reference to the play Antigone. ‘Tragedy is the representation of a serious and complete set of events, having a certain size, with embellished language used distinctly in the various parts of the play, the representation being accomplished by people performing and not by narration, and through pity and fear achieving the catharsis of such emotion’- Aristotle, Poetics, Chapter 6. The play “Antigone” by Sophocles displays many qualities that make it a great tragedy.
