... would rather die doing what's right for her family than to stay alive and be miserable regretting what she didn't do. Antigone made that clear when she said, "I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory."(112-113.) Creon was very upset to hear that Antigone was the one who disobeyed his orders. ... He seems to be most upset about the fact that Antigone is a woman and she is questioning his ruling. "I am not the man, not now: ... will not back down to Antigone because doing so would make Creon look bad giving up to a woman and also going back on his word. This is clear when he...

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... because it causes her to overlook the limitations of her own powers. Antigone's ethics derive from a dual responsibility to the unwritten laws and the gods' will and to family relations and care for others. Even though Antigone exhibits a blamable pride and hunger for glory, her vices are less serious than Creon's. Antigone's mistakes only harm herself, where as Creon's mistakes harm a whole city. Creon's refusal ... is him who has the sick, illogical mind. He too exhibits pride in his argument. To Antigone and most of the Athenians, possessing a wise and logical mind means acknowledgin...

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... his son, her brother (Polynices). Antigone is a powerful woman who cites her own experiences of suffering as a basis for her power. She admits that she has nothing to lose by speaking against Creon, and that Creon will only bring the next grief to her family: "Why not? Our own brothers' burial! Hasn't Creon graced ... one with all the rites, disgraced the other? Eteocles, they say, has been given full military honors, rightly so-Creon has laid him in the earth and he goes with glory down among the dead. But the body of Polynices, who died miserably- why, a city-wide proclamation, rumor h...

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... knowledge that plays as a prelude to our demise. This Aristotelian thought of seeking true knowledge when shared with power and pride can lead to ones downfall as seen through the plays of Doctor Faustus and Oedipus Rex. One does not have to look behind the words and actions to discover Faustus" pride, the willfulness of his falling from God, or his egotistic ambition to ... of secular learning are rejected because their ends do not satisfy his demand, but notice what his demand is. He does not pursue for the sake of truth, but for power, superhuman power, the power over life and death....

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... brashly ignores them all. It is not that he is a bad man; his motive is both self-less and selfish. He wants to save his city, but he also wants glory and vindication. He believes that he, one man, can be everything. Sophocles is pointing out that this isn't true ... . No king, no matter how hard he tries, can be a perfect ruler. The gods will not have any one man become so powerful, and the nature of power itself is ... audience, who is familiar with the story in Sophocles's trilogy, knows that he too will become arrogant and corrupt. It is another reminder of human weakness, and why an ...

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... to bury her brother's body. Polynices is her blood, her brother and her family. Antigone understands if she is caught, she will be killed. "I"ll bury him myself " (1032), She tells her sister Ismene. "And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I"ll lie with the one I love and loved by him" (1032). Antigone does not care about the outcome ... of this crime. She loves her brother dearly, and wants him to receive a proper burial. "Although celebrates as a source of great joy ... report, boy some new for me? My wife dead? O dear god! Slaughter heaped on slaughter?" (1063). S...

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... do not reflect the evidence that we have about the women in classical Athens. The tragedies of Medea, Antigone, Electra, and even Agamemnon, show women are strong and free willed and are capable of doing things on their own. In Euripides" Medea, Medea is constantly talking about the conditions that women face ... Medea is shown to be tough, and is warrior like in her speeches to the chorus. "Let no one think of me As humble or weak or passive, let them understand I am of a different kind, dangerous to my enemies Loyal to my friends. To such life glory belongs" [802-842] Medea's speech .....

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... two brothers: Creon is burying one to desecrate the other. Eteocles, they say, he was dispatched with proper rites as one judged fit to pass in glory to the shades. But Polyneices, killed as piteously, and interdict forbids that anyone should bury him or even mourn. He must be left unwept, unsepulchered, a vulture's prize, sweetly scented from afar. That's what they say ... one twisted off her earthly days with cord; and thirdly how our two brothers in one day each achieved for each a suicidal nemesis. And now, we two are left. Think how much worse our end will be than all the rest if w...

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