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  • Only Tragic Hero In The Play
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    The characters in the play Antigone all suffer a downfall of some sort. The major characters suffer the most, though. In this short essay, I will document on how the two main characters, Creon and Antigone, both inevitably become tragic heroes. The first example that I observed in Antigone was her self-righteous plight to bury her brother. She believes that what she is doing is right, and that she will do it no matter what the consequences, because he was her brother, her blood. This establishes...
  • Lead Character Of Antigone Creon
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    James Monahan Mrs. Mc Nicholas English 4 AP 11 December 2000 Creon as Tragic Hero Since the plays inception, there has always existed a contention concerning the true hero of Sophocles Antigone. It is a widely held belief that Antigone must be the main character simply because she and the drama share name. This is, of course, a very logical assumption. Certainly Sophocles must have at least meant her to be viewed as the protagonist, else he would not have given her the plays title. Analytically ...
  • Antigone's Tragic Flaw
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    A Humorous Distillation of Antigone by Maurice Sargoff This poem is quite successful in getting the plot across to the reader. Unfortunatly, that is all he can get across because of that, 'inside every fat book is a skinny book trying to get out. ' Sargoff cannot have character descriptions, themes, or any real detail in his 'skinny book' because of his. Sargoff leaves off why Polynices should not be buried and why his brother, who is not even, can. This is important to building the feelings of ...
  • Sign Of Creon's Obscene Amount Of Pride
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    PRIDE KILLS Based on the Greek play, Antigone. By Sophocles. If you have no pride than life is not worth living, but too much of a good thing will kill you. Excessive pride, also known as hubris, is often used in tragedies like Antigone. Most often, this will lead to a change in fortune due to this tragic flaw. This can be portrayed through the characters Antigone and Creon. It is important to take into consideration of the fact that pride is like a dark evil in this play. Not only is it evil, b...
  • Antigone By Sophocles Ismene
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    Ismene In "Antigone" by Sophocles Ismene is stuck between being a true sister or a traitor to her family. Choosing to be a true sister would call for her to follow the law of the gods and break the law of man. If she follows the law of the gods she would join her sister, Antigone, in burying their brother, Polyneices. If she follows the law of man she would betray her family and follow the law made banning the burial of Polyneices. The burial of Polyneices has been banned by King Creon because h...
  • Creon And Antigone
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    Antigone The main theme for Antigone is that people sometimes have to learn the hard way from their mistakes. This theme is expressed in the final four lines of the play. They read, There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. These lines are an important part of the play. They symbolize Creon's bad decisions, his defiance of the gods, the punishment he went through because of hi...
  • Central Conflict Between Antigone And Creon
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    The opening events of the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, quickly establish the central conflict between Antigone and Creon. Creon has decreed that the traitor Polynices, who tried to burn down the temple of gods in Thebes, must not be given proper burial. Antigone is the only one who will speak against this decree and insists on the sacredness of family and a symbolic burial for her brother. Whereas Antigone sees no validity in a law that disregards the duty family members owe one another,...
  • Antigone And Creon
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    ... er in the play who walks into her fate with her eyes open all along the way" (Classic Notes: Themes). The unities of time, place and action are key elements of the form of tragedy. "action may be though [t] of simply as motive or 'movement of spirit'... The action in Antigone is 'preserve rightness and order in Thebes'. Antigone is a strange case because the 'movement-of-spirit' arguably comes form two directions: Antigone and Creon are both championing what is right, but they define rightne...
  • Actions And Beliefs Of Creon And Antigone
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    The play Antigone is usually thought of as either the tragedy of Creon or the tragedy of Antigone, but it is just as much the tragedy of Antigone's sister Ismene. In the play, Antigone and Creon hold on to two different ideals, Antigone to the ideal of sororal duty and holy rights, while Creon holds on to the rules of his kingdom, dominated by the laws of men and of reason. Ismene is obsessed by her role as a woman, choosing to ignore her feelings of obligation towards her family, and remaining ...
  • Dramatic Choices The Characters Of Antigone
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    In everyday life, the outcome of your day can be altered by the simplest or most complicating choices. Antigone's decision to bury her brother, Creon's choice to sentence Antigone to death, and again Antigone's choice to end her life were important decisions that other characters based their conclusions around. The choices of the characters in Antigone change the outcome of the play and the lives or choices of other characters. The famous 'first' decision of Antigone was to bury her brother Poly...
  • Values Creon
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    Antigone Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus. She had two brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, and a sister Ismene. Oedipus had been the King of Thebes. However, he had killed his father and married his mother not knowing they were his parents. Oedipus was disgraced and had left the kingdom. His two sons were too young to rule, so Creon, their uncle served as ruler of Thebes. When Polyneices and Eteocles grew older they allowed their Uncle Creon to continue to rule because of the dishonor, which ...
  • Achilleus And Agamemnon And Antigone And Creon
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    This paper will address the conflicts between, Achilleus and Agamemnon, and Antigone and Creon. The first content paragraph will address the individuality that Achilleus brings about and how it goes against the tradition. The second content paragraph will address Antigone and her fight for justice and tradition. In conclusion we will reflect on the similarities and dissimilarities of Antigone and Achilleus' conflicts, and how their fights, for and against tradition, were really the same fight fo...
  • Creon And Antigone
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    Antigone is a play that is based on the conflict between a young girl and a new King. The young girl, Antigone, is appalled by the King's, Creon's, words. No one is to bury or in any way show respect to her fallen brother, Polyneices. However, Creon is appalled that the traitor, Polyneices, led the attack against his beloved city, Thebes. Scholars have long debated over which side is right: Antigone standing up for her family or Creon defending his city. The death and burial rites of Polyneices ...
  • Issues Between Antigone And Creon
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    The play entitled Antigone was written by a man named Sophocles, a scholarly author of philosophy and logic. The play Antigone is probably one of the most prominent interpretations of a tragic drama. The two main characters of the play are Antigone and Creon. There is much conflict between Antigone and Creon throughout the play, both of them having their own ideas and opinions regarding divine law versus human law. The theme that I am going to analyze is the conflict of divine law vs. human law....
  • Sophocles Antigone Heroism A 5 Page Paper
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    Sophocles' 'Antigone' / Catharsis & Audience Identification [ send me this paper ] A 5 page paper on the process of 'tragic catharsis' in Sophocles' classic play. Beginning with a definition of tragedy which includes the concept of catharsis, the paper shows how audiences watching Antigone empathize by putting their own self-doubts up there on the stage, and symbolically work them out right alongside Antigone. Bibliography lists 2 sources. Filename: Cath aud. wps Sophocles' 'Antigone' / Heroism ...
  • Creon's Pride
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    In the play Antigone, one of the protagonists, Creon, is presented with three interlocking themes. By facing these conflicts, Creon reveals his weaknesses and helps character growth. Through the development of these dramatic themes the play reaches its climax and its resolution and the audience is able to understand the personalities of each character. The themes I chose that demonstrated these characteristics are the fallowing: individual vs. society, youth vs. age and men vs. gods. When Creon'...
  • Teresias Approaches Creon
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    Antigone is a play based on the power of democracy. Creon punished all of the democratic acts as tyranny against the state. At the end of the play he realized that there is no one man state, that the people rule it. Without any people to agree with your decisions you are just a man not a republic. One of the first references to the family is the two different burials given to brothers. Antigone feels that it is disrespectful to her, that Creon gave an honorable to one. Another instance of family...
  • Antigone To Creon
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    Analysis on the conflict men vs. women found in Antigone Many conflicts can be found within various plays. In Sophocles' Antigone one of the many conflicts found is men versus women. The king of Thebes, Creon, has a problem with women. But not only the king, Ismene, Antigone's sister as well refers to herself and her sister as being inferior to men. Women generally do not have the courage to stand up to their husbands. Yet Antigone is brave enough to disobey Creon's law and ready to face the con...
  • Dead Wife And Self Imposed Exile
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    Antigone did the Antigone Antigone did the right thing by defiling Creon's strict orders on burying Polynices because the unalterable laws of the gods and our morals are higher than the blasphemous laws of man. Creon gave strict orders not to bury Polynices because he lead a rebellion, which turned to rout, in Thebes against Creon, their omnipotent king. Antigone could not bare to watch her brother become consumed by vultures' talons and dogs. Creon finds out that somebody buried Polynices' body...
  • Antigone Believes Creon
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    ? If they only Knew? When two people have an uncompromisable difference in opinion they are forced to become enemies. Sophocles illustrates this in the tragedy Antigone through the main characters, Antigone and Creon. Antigone, King Oedipus's daughter, has come back to Thebes after king Creon has put her two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles to death. After being killed only one brother is given a proper burial, the other one, Polynecius, is left out to be? chewed up by birds and dogs (page 168 l...

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