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  • Clash Between Civil And Divine Law
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    Amanda SadowskiPeriod Three September 15, 1999 The Clash Between Civil and Divine Law Charles Dickens once said, 'The law is an ass. ' Though at first, it seems harsh and very strange, the deeper meaning is one that is a perfect summary of the Greek tragedy Antigone. The meaning of an 'ass,' is a stubborn, obstinate, perverse, immovable animal. Throughout Antigone, the characters must deal with the clash between Civil and Divine law. They struggle to discover what is truly right and wrong, good ...
  • Initial Reactions Of Achilles And Creon
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    Both Creon of Sophocles Antigone and Achilles of Homer's The Iliad end up allowing the body of their enemy a proper burial. During the time following the death of Hector, Achilles is in a position very similar to that which Creon deals with in Antigone. Both men show similar flaws, and face similar struggles. The difference between the two men is only subtly discernible until the telling moment when each man is faced with pressure to change his stance on the fate of the fallen warrior. Each man'...
  • Order Of Creon
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    Laws of the City-State vs. Higher Law as Seen in Sophocles' "Antigone" In Ancient Greece, after 800 bc., new ideas came to the forefront concerning the governing of society. These ideas led to a more organized leadership and a government whose decisions were primarily based on majority rule. This system took the form of city-states, large self-governing towns. These city-states were founded on principals of "freedom, optimism, secularism, rationalism, [and] the glorification of body and mind". A...
  • Death Of His Wife Creon
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    The Hubris of a Hero The play Antigone by Sophocles is a play like no other. Its central theme is a practical problem of conduct involving the laws of the gods and those of the humans. Antigone represents the laws of the gods while Creon represents those of the humans. Both characters are very stubborn, neither of them willing to back down or compromise. Both sides are committed to their own reasoning and disinclined to listen to other points of view. Because of the hubris, or overweening pride,...
  • Justice In Antigones Judgments
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    Throughout history mankind has always been faced with judgments. According the Oxford English Dictionary, judgment means the mental ability to form an opinion (AHD, 454). We are forced to make decisions based on our mental opinions. Then, ones actions are based on mental opinions which are judged by other people. Then there is the inevitable justification of these actions by other people or the person themselves. According the Oxford English Dictionary, justify means to demonstrate sufficient le...
  • Womanlike Challenge To Creon's Authority
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    "Frailty is thy name woman!" Taken from this line reflects a common misconception about women. According to some, the sole purpose and duty of a woman is to serve her husband and look pretty. Her voice is not heard. Her thoughts are not taken into consideration. Her virtue and intellect are not respected. A woman is the "effect" of the "cause" that is man. The women in the Oedipus Trilogy are depicted in such a manner. They are almost background figures, reacting to events, but not causing them....
  • Actions Of The Play Antigone
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    Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus The chorus, a group of common people who follow the actions of the play Antigone, waver in their support of either Antigone or Creon, depending on their actions during a particular part of the story-line. Early in the play it is evident that they are extremely pro-Creon, but a short time later they seem to sway into the direction of Antigone and support her actions. This the them, however, was an extremely interesting feature of this Sophocles drama, causin...
  • Death To Antigone
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    Antigone was a selfless person with pride as a strong characteristic of her personality. She possibly had feelings of loneliness and anger from the way society has looked upon her family from their past. It took a strong willed person who has no fear of the repercussions to stand up to a king as she did. To make everything all the worst she stood up to a king who was her Uncle and she being a female back in those time, standing up and speaking out for herself was not heard of. Having already bee...
  • Conflict Between Antigone And Creon
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    Tragedy is a description of an event that evokes a sympathetic feeling of emotion by the audience. The events involve people emotionally who were not involved in the situation physically. In the story of Antigone, Sophocles forces the audience to take pity on the poor girl's situation. This story impacts the audience in such a way that the audience becomes emotionally enthralled in the plot of the story. All of Steiner's, "Principle constants of conflict in the condition of man", (360) were pres...
  • Example Of Ee Cummings Quotation
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    ee cummings once said, "to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight". That quotation is exemplified in many works of literature, but the opposite is too. No matter what people try to be or not to be, they don't always succeed. For example, in the play, Antigone, by Sophocles, the character, Antigone displays the idea of being her own person, but Creon displays the opposit...
  • Antigone To And Ismene To Death
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    In Greek literature, a tragic hero is based upon an individual having several of the following qualities: having a high social position in society; not being overly good or bad; being persistent or stubborn in their actions; having a single flaw that brings about their own death and the death of others; and obtaining pity from the audience. Antigone was a prime example of a Greek tragic hero. Antigone, being the daughter of Oedipus, obtained a high social standing in Thebes. Prior to his self-ex...
  • Sophocles Antigone The Hero
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    Antigone: A Tragic Hero Heroes come in many forms. Some such as immense in size and strength as Hercules, some in the form of people that are shunned upon, such as Harriet Tubman, and some that are only valorous heroes to some, such as Kurt Cobain. These heroes have many characteristics that make people flock to their side and follow them without a thought of hesitation. In Sophocles' Antigone the hero is a women that believes in her heart far stronger than that of her leader's rule. This brings...
  • Antigone's Brothers
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    Although Sophocles' epic story of the life of King Oedipus is widely considered a great dramatic tragedy, the last of the three plays, Antigone, deviates from the first two stories. In Sophocles' other two plays, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colon us, we see the misfortunes and then redemption of Oedipus. He is a king who unwillingly and unknowingly breaks the law of the land and the law of civilized humanity by killing his father and marrying his mother, then punishing himself for his action...
  • Antigone And Nora Helmer
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    In the two plays, Antigone and A Doll's House, the protagonists of the stories are both women. They challenge the traditional roles of women in their respective society even though the plays are separated by thousands of years. Even with the time difference, the accepted roles of women in Antigone and A Doll's House are similar. Antigone and Nora Helmer are both strong women in a time when women are considered the weaker sex and defiance is punished. Sophocles' Antigone was written circa 441 B.C...
  • Play Antigone
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    Would you ever dare to disobey the law and risk your life for it just so you could do what you thought was right? In the play Antigone, the main character Antigone, had her actions rewarded by death. She had disobeyed the law made by Creon (the king) and therefore had to be punished. It seems as if she made her actions just so people would think of her as a heroine. What kind of evidence would make people think of her as a heroine or a good role model? The fact that she purposely disobeyed the l...
  • Beliefs Of Antigone And Creon
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    Many dramatic theorists have documented their opinions of Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. They have presented their interpretations as to the motives and moral character of Antigone and Creon. I will attempt to encapsulate the basic logic behind the arguments of the critics Brian Vickers, A.C. Bradley (who interprets Hegel), and H.D.F. Kitto, and venture my own humble opinion as to their validity. Brian Vickers clearly favors the character of Antigone. He challenges Hegel and Hegel's view that ...
  • Haemon And His Father Creon
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    In Antigone, there is a strong love for family shown. As the story begins we are informed of a war that has taken place between two brothers. The one who was defending his land, Eteocles, was to receive a proper burial and the one that attacked the land, Polynices, was... not to be buried, not to be mourned. King Creon ordered anyone caught burying Polynices to be stoned. Since both men were brothers to Antigone, she felt both should receive a proper burial so she covered Polynices with a layer ...
  • Creon's Pride Of Power
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    Pride is a quality that all people possess in one way or another. Some people take pride in their appearance, worldly possessions, or position in society. The story of Antigone written by Sophocles has two characters who have a tragic flaw of pride. I will show how Creon's pride of power leads to his destruction, and how Antigone's pride makes her an honorable character who should be treated as a hero. Creon is a man who has just become the king of Thebes and has a flaw of having too much pride....
  • Creon Being A New King
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    Antigone Fatal Flaw And Downfall Essay, Research Antigone Fatal Flaw And Downfall It is clear that Creon's tragic flaw was his pride, arrogance and beliefs of a leader that cause his downfall. His downfall began when he denied the burial of Polyneices and was firm when he condemned Antigone for her objection to his law. Creon represents the laws of the land and the divine ruler of society. He remains loyal in upholding his laws and trying to overpower the laws of the gods, until the end when he ...
  • Antigone's Act
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    In the story, Antigone, by Sophocles, the character Antigone goes against the king because of her own beliefs and values, this is what makes her human. She speaks out and protests to the king and his guards. She believes that the law is unjust, that her brother deserves a fair burial, and that the rules of the gods go before the rules of man. She stands up for what she believes in, even though she knows it will result in death. She is able to think for herself, which gives her, her own personali...

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