... car but not be selfish when deciding to move their family across country for a new job. The difference is the importance of the decisions and really how many people it affects. The color of a new car may affect their wife by getting a color she doesn't like. This action is minimal because she will carry on ... ! No! And if there were a way to block the source of hearing in my ears, I'd gladly have locked up my pitiable body, so I'd be blind and deaf. Evils shut out " that way my mind could live in sweetness. (1392-1398) He speaks of how he should be pitied and if he could he would make ...

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... herself, where as Creon's mistakes harm a whole city. Creon's refusal to bury Polyneices is a worse offense to human values than refusing to heed his order. Creon has no toleration for people who place personal beliefs over the common good. He believes that government and law is the supreme authority, and civil disobedience is worst form of sin. The problem with Creon ... is he approaches He approaches every dilemma that requires judgement through descriptive generalizations. In contrast to the morality defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachaean Ethics, Creon shows that he is deaf to the ...

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... with his bloody hands. They found Haemon holding Antigone's corpse: she had hung herself with the red and gold cord of her robe. Creon approached his son, but he remained deaf to his father's voice. Suddenly he then rose, struck Creon, and drew his sword. Staring at him in contempt, Haemon stabbed himself and lay beside Antigone in a pool of blood ... comment on the action or the nature of tragedy itself. Along with playing narrator, the Chorus also attempts to intercede throughout the play, whether on the behalf of the Theban people or the horrified spectators. Jonas The three Guardsme...

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... his caring for Antigone and Ismene when their father was persecuted. He also realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. Finally he is forced to live, knowing that three people are dead because of his ignorance, which is a punishment worse than death. All are the key elements that make Creon for being a true tragic hero. Creon is a man of great ... new calamity upon us. Our hearts and altars Are stained with the corruption of dogs and carrion birds That glut themselves on the corpse of Oedipus" sons. The gods are deaf when we pray to them, their fire Recoils from our offering...

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... bold confidence that, combined with his strong curiosity and ignorance, led to his fatal mistakes in judgment (Howard 5). Oedipus is described as a self-assured and proud king (O'Brien 20). The people of Thebes see Oedipus as " the first of men, to whom all knees are bent- (Howard 5). He was prosperous, admired and sure of strength (Howard 10). Oedipus was described as ... who is blind from understanding (Howard 6). He boldly ridicules Tiresias' blindness when he says, " It does but not for you, old man. You've lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf "senses, eyes blind as stone! Blind...

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... and thinks that due to his higher role, he is higher in everything else thus being his tragic flaw throughout Antigone. Almost too often people who are not open minded to others opinions and let one be deaf to other ideas because it is not what one wants to hear. Creon does this in order to not feel weak and inferior. When ... that, "[The Sentry] speaks too much" (Ode I). There is no denying Creon has excessive pride. It makes it impossible for him to "show [himself] weak before the people [and] for him to break [his] sworn words" (Scene III). Creon would rather let Antigone, who is his...

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• Grade Level: High School