... always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. Pride was a major cause for the down fall of both Creon and Antigone as well as the protagonist of Sophocles prequal to Antigone, Oedipus. Choragos mentions pride but he is sure to first put the lesson of the play, ... pride with the stubbornness of youth and it becomes even more clear how pride brought tragedy to both Antigone and Creon. There are several valuable lessons, universals truths, that, through Sophocles characters, to be learned for Antigone. A major part of Sophocles tragedies is the chorus, which has many uses but...

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... authority, or, human law. He holds that Sophocles left no doubt about what conclusion should be drawn in the end. He believes Antigone was right and Creon was certainly in the wrong for his irreverence to the Gods. The Chorus speaks for Sophocles, says Bowra. The conflict, according to Bowra, built good contrast - the real arrogance of Creon vs. the apparent arrogance of ... too deeply on her conscience to consider Creon's side. Again, this issue of "one-sidedness" resurfaces. Despite the common need for the reader to sympathize with Antigone, as Nussbaum says, Antigone and Creon are bo...

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... capable, and intelligent, women are precisely the opposite: they are women because they lack these positive qualities, and are thus weak in body, mind and spirit. Antigone has gone and done something that clearly required strength of character, audacity, and fearlessness. She has taken the role of a man, and has denied Creon this ... matter what, intends to stick with them. This play was certainly a positive image for women of that century and of today. I believe that what Antigone did in this play, started a trend that continues today. She stood up against man, for what she believed to b...

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... it is his misjudgment and pride that causes his downfall. Yet, the title of this story is still Antigone. This is because it is her actions that lead to Creon's fall. She is the catalyst for the chain reactions that occur in the play. All Antigone wants to do is give her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. But King Creon says that burying Polynices ... would change his mind. His pride would not let him see reason, that all Antigone wants is a burial for her beloved brother. And so he ordered her death and this causes everything to fall apart for Creon. However, Creon did finally realiz...

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... good or completely bad, someone who falls from tremendous good and recognizes their tragic flaw. In these three ways Antigone was the tragic heroine. There are many ways Antigone proves she is a good person, such as when she wants to bury her brother, Polyneices," But Polyneices who ... to your family" (693). And that is why she is neither good nor bad. Pride brought Antigone down throughout the play. For instance when she accepted her punishment for burying Polyneices, "I should have praise and honor for what I have done. All these men would praise me" (710). Here is another way, her ....

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... in the play. The way she poses her characteristics in such as being stubborn and raggedness portrays her flaw in the play. Antigone attempts to challenge Creon's love for power and accepts the punishment given to her. She bows to death because she is aware that she has done a good deed ... makes her character admirable. This open threat still has no effect on Creon's decision towards Antigone's punishment. Though he recalls his promise to the people, it seems as if he is completey blinded by his love for power. Creon absolutely isolates himself from the rest of the world and believes him...

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... making him a tragic hero. Because of his excessive pride, Creon could not hear the sense spoken by his son, or the blind prophet, Teiresius. He could not let Antigone go unpunished for her crime for fear of looking weak to his kingdom. Thus his own bad decisions mixed with fate caused his downfall. This is an exact description of a tragic hero. Finally, the ... realizes his tragic flaw (in this case Creon's bad decision) when it's too late. This moment of realization, never occurred for Antigone, who died righteously. However, Creon did realize his tragic flaw at the end of the play, mo...

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... making him a tragic hero. Because of his excessive pride, Creon could not hear the sense spoken by his son, or the blind prophet, Teiresius. He could not let Antigone go unpunished for her crime for fear of looking weak to his kingdom. Thus his own bad decisions mixed with fate caused his downfall. This is an exact description of a tragic hero. Finally, the ... realizes his tragic flaw (in this case Creon's bad decision) when it's too late. This moment of realization, never occurred for Antigone, who died righteously. However, Creon did realize his tragic flaw at the end of the play, mo...

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... should not make assumptions about whether or not something is right or wrong, unless the answer to that is apparently clear. Antigone believed that the actions she took were done for the right reason, because they adhere to the law of the Gods. In opposition to that, Creon believes that the actions ... strong beliefs (Segal Sophocles 65). Charles Segal says in Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone: She chooses the divine command over the human compulsion, and rejects life with it's compromises for the absolutes of death. Indeed, in her terms these absolutes are, par...

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... that position. By tragically losing all, one is forced to feel sympathy toward him, and for always doing what he thought was right, and be loyal to what he thought would farther and protect his kingdom. Antigone possesses the qualities everyone admires. She is defiant, strong-willed, rebellious, brave, loyal, and ... qualities with cruelty, authoritativeness, loyalty, and pride. By the end of the play Antigone is exonerated for having buried her brother Polyneices and also for going against the law that was set by Creon. Even though she had excused for her actions, she still lost her own...

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... struggle (ending in death). Catharsis is accomplished through the catastrophic consequences of the main character's actions. Throughout the play, the viewer experiences pity and fear for a number of the characters. In the opening scene, a conversation between Antigone and her sister Ismene introduces us to the folly that has befallen their family. They allow us to see that prior to their current circumstance ... heir, goes to war with his brother. During battle the two brothers were slain, "by their hands dealing mutual death" (1.16). Not only must Antigone and Ismene survive their brot...

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... inconspicuously known that Creon is distraught over whom he ought to listen to. Creon, however, remains in his stubborn character and follows through with the death sentence for Antigone. Antigone makes one last! speech to the people of Thebes to confirm that she has their support and pity, because dying without having been wed, is a large ... She speaks of how she can never be wed, and as a result how there will be no husband, or children to weep for her when she's gone. With that said, Antigone is sent to her bridal-chamber, at which point she nobly takes her own life from a self-made n...

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... only does she put forth a weak effort to save herself, but in the end, she takes her own life. If Antigone thought that she was in fact correct in burying Polyneices, she would have waited for the gods" assistance, rather than killing herself. Antigone is not the only character to command her own fate. Creon is a perfect example. Creon's first error occurs when ... his son is dead. Along with Creon, his wife, Eurydice, takes full liability for her future. Their son Haemon directly controls his life's outcome as well. Haemon tries to stop Antigone's death from occurring but he does not d...

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... will show the many variations that her character shows throughout the play. There are several points in the play that Antigone seems very heroic, especially when she is speaking to Creon about her reasoning for attempting to bury her brother. She reflects every aspect of a hero by trying to sneak out not once, but ... erases the thought of her, as a hero because all of her actions that were thought to have been done for Polynices were only done to satisfy her own needs. The one characteristic of Antigone that seems to be constant throughout the play is her stubbornness. From the beginnin...

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Antigone, by Sophocles, is a play that has three major themes. All three of these themes play a very important part in this play. The three major themes are fate, love, and pride. ... , king of Thebes, not knowing it was his father and then took over Thebes. He married Iocaste, queen of Thebes (his mother), and had four children; one was a girl named Antigone. When Oedipus had figured out who he was and what he had done he moved away and cut out his eyes. Iocaste's cousin, Creon, had taken over as king of ... out all about it. Fate then tortured Oedipus and he cut out his eyes. Fate had made...

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... of all the characters presented. Kreon has just started to hold the role as the King for his society and is faced with many both emotional and mind puzzling issues. In the play Antigone fights for an honorable burial for her brother Polyneices, a man who Kreon greatly disliked. Kreon is hesitant to perform the ... play. I do believe Haimon is trying to save Antigone from her doomed fate, but I also believe he is trying to relate to his father the values that he always should have embodied. I also believe that Kreon has a tremendous amount of sympathy for Antigone and her position. He wa...

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... of scene three the chorus explains how nothing can escape the path love has chosen. The transition the chorus gives between each scene is much need information for a person to understand the story of Antigone. Throughout the entire story there is one person in the chorus who is almost an assistant to the king and comments on the king's every action, and ... gives his speech to the townspeople, he wants Choragos to go enforce his message and give no support to whoever breaks this law. In scene two when the sentry captures Antigone for the crime of burying Polyneices, the first person the...

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Priority of functions 1. Visibility 2. Focus/Composition 3. Mood 4. Environment/Plausibility 5. Theme Visibility is the most important factor in my analysis of Antigone. The entire play is a series of French scenes. The only real separations between the parts of the play are the chorus" songs. The set itself, while not necessarily basic, is ... make sure the audience pays attention to certain people the focus or intensity of the lights need to stand out amongst themselves. When parts of the stage can't be dark for various reasons, the audience needs to have their attention directed in certai...

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After you read the play Julius Caesar you will be able to connect to what I am saying. If you have not had the opportunity to read the play yet that is not a reason to not read my essay. In the play there are basically to main characters Brutus and Cassius. They are plotting a plot to kill Caesar. In my essay I will tell you in my opinion who I believe who is the best suitable to lead the plot against the assassination. According to my first resource of information the most suitable to lead the plot would be Brutus. They had many good reasons why they believed this. First of all they used who ...

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Opinion essay After you read the play Julius Caesar you will be able to connect to what I am saying. If you have not had the opportunity to read the play yet that is not a reason to not read my essay. In the play there are basically to main characters Brutus and Cassius. They are plotting a plot to kill Caesar. In my essay I will tell you in my opinion who I believe who is the best suitable to lead the plot against the assassination. According to my first resource of information the most suitable to lead the plot would be Brutus. They had many good reasons why they believed this. First of all ...

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... He is also the tragic hero of the play. That is why the play is really about Creon even though the title is Antigone. Creon's impact on the play is much bigger than Antigone's. Creon is in almost all of the scenes. At first it shows what kind of ruler he will be during his council meeting ... the dilemma in the play. He is the one who makes the decree about Polyneices not being buried. In doing this, he angered the gods. Antigone knows she can't leave Polyneices unburied for fear of not being able to see him in the underworld. So she buries him. Creon's arrogance with the decree and his...

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... He is also the tragic hero of the play. That is why the play is really about Creon even though the title is Antigone. Creon's impact on the play is much bigger than Antigone's. Creon is in almost all of the scenes. At first it shows what kind of ruler he will be during his council meeting ... the dilemma in the play. He is the one who makes the decree about Polyneices not being buried. In doing this, he angered the gods. Antigone knows she can't leave Polyneices unburied for fear of not being able to see him in the underworld. So she buries him. Creon's arrogance with the decree and his...

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... this play. I believe that Creon is the main character because he is constantly in debate throughout out the entire play. Creon, unlike Antigone, interacts with all of the characters making him the central character to the play. Creon initiates the tragedy by establishing a punishment, that ... divine powers. Creon's downfall began when he refused to provide the divine right of proper burial to Polyneices, Antigone's brother. The tragedy then became complete when Creon condemned Antigone for her opposition to his law. In Creon's case, the tragedy would not only involve the individual but ...

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List some reasons you think Creon should or should not of changed his mind. If he would have changed his mind about Antigone, people might have look at him different. Although if he did not change his mind he would make everyone afraid of breaking the law or disrespecting him. I believe Creon should ... not have changed his mind because he was establishing a sense of order in the city, by setting an example. He is filling people with fear through Antigone to make people think twice about breaking the law. This, to me, is setting a sense of respect and honor. Although I do believe he went a li...

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... no characters of royalty. The third quality for a Greek Tragedy is there is no violence on stage. This quality is only present in the play Antigone. The violence in the play Antigone is talked about by the characters, but never shown. An example of is when Antigone and Ismene are talking about what has happened ... The fourth quality of a Greek Tragedy is a constant reference to God and fate. In both Antigone and Hamlet, the characters always make reference to God, whether they are asking for advice or even just to apologize for their sins. In Hamlet, the reader sees a ghost which is in ...

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