Antigone: Writing Prompt In the Greek play Antigone,the character Antigone decided to disobey her uncle’s law about burying her brother Polyneices. The law said that no one was allowed to bury polynices and to leave him to rot. Polyneices was also declared as a traitor,while her other brother Eteocles had a soldier's burial with military honors.
Antigone Relevance In the book Antigone by Sophocles the main character is Antigone and her sister Ismene. Their close brother Polyneices has died in a battle against his brother over the city. Antigone wants to give her brother a proper burial but Creon the new ruler, announces that if anyone buries Polyneices they will be put to death. Creon believes Polyneices was a traitor.
In the play "Antigone", there are distinct conflicts between Creon and Antigone. Antigone beliefs of the gods in high reverence. She feels that the laws of the gods should be obeyed above all others, especially when it comes to respect to a family. Creon, on the other hand, feels that all should obey the laws set forth by him, even if other beliefs, or religious, stated otherwise. Regarding for the laws of the city this causes Creon to abandon all other beliefs.
In the play Antigone, there was a character who was put in a unique situation. Haimen was the son of the newly crowned King Creon and was engaged to his own first cousin, Antigone. When Haimen is introduced into the play Creon thinks that Antigone should be put to death because she tried to bury her brother in order for him to rest in peace, but Haimen thinks otherwise. He uses various rhetorical devices to try and change his father’s ruling and get him on his side. Haimen enters and begins reasoning with his father, but Creon is not having it.
Have you ever read the play Antigone and wondered who the tragic hero is? The tragic hero in the play is Creon, because he is a good ruler trying to restore order to Thebes but because of his pride and stubbornness he ends up alone and losing loved ones. One way we know Creon is a tragic hero is he says “This is my command, and you can see the wisdom behind it. As long as I am King, no traitor is going to be honored with the loyal man.” (Creon 1/40)
Antigone's character displays the trait of being honorable through her quest to give her brother Polyneices a proper burial. She would rather "die an honorable death" instead of one with worst consequences (Sophocles). Antigone sees that there is no better way to die that a death with honor and faithfulness to her kin. Knowing the consequence of breaking Creon's law was death, she knew that if she were ever caught, she would "nobly die" (Mckay, line 5). Oedipus's stubborn daughter is not afraid to die, for she knows her death will not be for nothing.
A: I found Canto XXXIII of Dante’s Inferno to be an extremely intriguing canto as it highlighted many key themes portrayed throughout all of Inferno such as betrayal, cruelness and death. This can be illustrated from Count Ugolino’s story on his cruel death in the hands of the Archbishop Ruggieri and what led to his journey to Hell. Ugolino begins by calling the archbishop a traitor for imprisoning him and his children, claiming “How [Ugolino] was seized, and executed then, having trusted [Ruggieri] while he betrayed and lied” (Canto XXXIII, p. 1).
In the tragedy, Antigone, Creon is the tragic hero and is the one partaking in what Aristotle define as “recognition.” Recognition, according to Aristotle, is something that all tragedy needs and “is a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune,” (Aristotle, part XI). Aristotle defines ignorance to knowledge as the tragic hero recognizing his ignorant self after the hero has encountered something drastic. Recognition was noticed in Antigone when Creon was arrogant but figures it out after his whole family had died because of his selfish way. Creon has shown throughout Antigone his ignorance and showed his knowledge near the end of the tragedy.
XXXIII) When Dante and Virgil reach the last Canto of the Inferno, they are introduced to Dis, the ultimate embodiment of Pride. Moreover, the grotesque perversion of the Holy Trinity in this Canto is a symbol of isolation and the self as a well-defended prison. This is a reminder of how the most
If you asked a writer in ancient Greece what a good tragic hero would be, they would say something along the lines of “a person who succumbs to their fatal flaw in order to prove a point.” According to this statement, in my opinion, Creon fits this role perfectly in more ways than one. This is something that might not be easily seen due to the fact that Creon is usually listed as the antagonist, but a bit of looking can say otherwise. The first shred of evidence is the fact that Creon has a major fatal flaw, which is his pride and ignorance. The flaw majorly impacts his ability to reason normally, which leads to decisions such as ignoring Tiresias (Ln.
Antigone, a play by Sophocles, was written thousands of years before some of the world's greatest rebellions and acts of martyrdom, such as Mohammed in Tunisia in 2010, yet it still portrays the same human nature of defying laws of the land. The main character, Antigone, rebels against the king of Thebes by burying her brother, knowing the harsh punishment for doing so, therefore making her a martyr for her personal beliefs. The news of her death sentence brings outrage to the people of Thebes, including those close to King Creon. In Antigone, Sophocles develops the universal theme of martyrdom and rebellion that is demonstrated through Antigone because of how the characters defy laws and react to her rebellion, which mirrors Mohammed Bouazizi’s case in Tunisia 2,500 years later. There never was, and never will be, a time when every person agrees with the laws and restrictions of the land, and the cases of Antigone and Mohammed Bouazizi are quintessential examples.
(354-357) Born then says the final line within Canto 28, “Thus is observed in me the counterpoise.” (358) Not all of Dante’s Hell continues the trend of being a place made only for people who have committed grave sin. The reader finds in Canto 4 that many great poets and people that existed prior to the death of Jesus Christ inhabit the first circle. (88-90) Finally, Dante’s phrases his idea of hell in a very interesting way in Canto 3 by saying those in hell have “foregone the good of intellect” (18)
Commentary: As I have learned in the virtual lectures, you can find theme within dialogue and exposition. The latter part of the second scene does this many times, and this shirt excerpt was chosen because I found it to have revealed these themes the most times within a short amount of dialogue. At the beginning of this excerpt, Ismene admits guilt of belong her sister Antigone bury the body, even though she truly did not participate in the act. Since Ismene admits to guilt to the law made my Creon, this shows her loyalty to human law and civil obedience over divine law and familial loyalty, respectively. This is even further justified by Antigone when she says "Ask Creon.
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.
Cindy Yoon Mr.Constantini English 1A 18 September 2015 Real Tragic Hero of Antigone The play, Antigone is an Ancient Greek play mostly about myth written by Sophocles. There are two main characters in this play which are Antigone and Creon. Antigone is a girl who tries to bury her brother, Polyneices who died during the war and she chooses family instead of the government. Creon, is Antigone’s uncle, and also a King of Thebes who didn’t allow the people to bury Polyneices.
