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Antigone
Naturally, most people's sympathy would be with Antigone. She was the one who ultimately did the right thing by honoring her brother and, by extension, the gods. She is the play's tragic heroine,...
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Antigone
After Creon sentences Antigone to be buried alive as punishment for disobeying his dictate to leave the bodies of the rebels unburied, the chorus' strophe characterizes Antigone as a woman driven...
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Antigone
As is always the case in Greek tragedy, the inciting events of Antigone happen off stage. In keeping with established dramatic convention, these events are related by a messenger who goes into...
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Antigone
Creon shows a pattern of behavior in his dialogues, which clearly extends to Teiresias in this section of the play. Initially, he is positive and full of praise in his attitude and characterization...
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Antigone
When Antigone is confronted by Creon after being caught trying to bury Polyneices in Sophocles's Antigone, she's unwavering in her belief that she's done her right and moral duty. By that she means...
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Antigone
In this section of the play, the characterization of Antigone comes principally from her final speech before she is led away to a grim death. She remains stubborn in her certainty that she has done...
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Antigone
After the choral ode, Creon and Haemon each have a substantial speech, followed by stichomythia in which Haemon's opposition to his father grows increasingly heated and Creon, as the audience has...
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Antigone
In this particular scene—scene 2—Antigone has just openly admitted to Creon's face that she's defied his express order not to bury her dead brother Polynices. This is in response to Creon's direct...
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Antigone
The original production of Antigone, like all Greek tragedies, would have been a reflection of the social and moral values shared by its audience. Plays were a community event in Ancient Greece,...
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Antigone
The character of Creon has been the subject of debate from antiquity to the present. He is an interesting and complex character. In many ways, he is a patriot, striving to do what is best for...
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Antigone
The actual physical setting for Sophocles's Antigone is the Theater of Dionysus, located on south side of the Acropolis in Athens. This is the same location that the plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus,...
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Antigone
The first choral ode in Antigone occurs after the scene in which Creon tells the Chorus, representing the people of Thebes, that the brothers Polyneices and Eteocles have killed each other in the...
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Antigone
When Antigone refuses to obey the order of Creon to not bury her brother’s body, she makes what is in our world a political protest against what she considers an unjust and immoral law. Her refusal...
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Antigone
This play isn't called a tragedy for nothing. At the end of the play, Antigone commits suicide, hanging herself. Haemon, upon finding out about Antigone's death, attempts to stab his father, and...
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Antigone
Although Aristotle does not specifically define "catharsis" in the Poetics, the term is generally used in both ancient and modern literary criticism to describe two elements of a play. The first is...
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Antigone
Creon does in large measure get what he deserves at the end of the play, although this does not mean that we can’t feel sorry for him. He brings retribution down on his own head by his intemperate...
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Antigone
It seems that Sophocles wants to make the point that Antigone made choices leading to her death while Antigone herself wants to justify her choices as being the direct result of her parents'...
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Antigone
Although Antigone and Creon are antagonists in Sophocles’ plays, the conflict between them is due as much to their similarities as to their differences. Both are dedicated to abstract notions of...
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Antigone
Antigone believes that she has the right to bury her brother Polynices for two reasons. First of all, she's Polynices' nearest relative, and according to the traditional funerary customs it's her...
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Antigone
The conflict between divine law and civic law drives much of the plot in the tragedy Antigone. Antigone represents divine law because she has chosen to bury her brother to fulfill the requirements...
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Antigone
Blindness versus sight is a motif that appears in all three of the Oedipus plays—Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. The motif is enhanced by the appearance of the blind seer-prophet,...
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Antigone
Confucius saw the society around him being torn apart by civil war and chaos. Order became an all-important principle to him. If all people in a society knew their places and behaved in harmony...
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Antigone
Ismene, Antigone's sister, appears in two key scenes in the play. In the play's beginning, Ismene refuses to help Antigone bury their brother Polyneices. This causes Antigone to break with her...
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Antigone
In Antigone, Creon's tragic flaw is his hubris which is exhibited in his refusal to listen to anyone's advice regarding the punishment he doles on Antigone. Creon's tragic flaw is best seen in his...
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Antigone
Sophocles' Antigone focuses on the following choices: 1. Civil law vs. personal morality. Antigone chose to obey her own convictions by burying her brother, even though it was against the law of...
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Antigone
The blind prophet Teiresias warns Creon ,who can physically see but is figuratively blind to the consequences of his decisions, that by ignoring the laws of the gods, he will bring tragedy upon his...
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Antigone
While both family and authority are important to Sophocles, the importance of honoring family seems a bit more important to him when the fates of Antigone and her family are considered. Creon's...
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Antigone
Creon and Antigone are similar in some significant ways. Both are very strong, aggressive, willful personalities who are utterly convinced of the rightness of their actions. Neither of them will...
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Antigone
Over the course of the play Antigone, Creon becomes a more sympathetic character. At the beginning of the play, Creon is entirely stubborn and insists that there should be no mercy for Polyneices....
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Antigone
A main theme in "Antigone" is the role of custom. The play asks the audience to consider if tradition and what is right ever come into conflict, and how is that conflict to be resolved....
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Antigone
References to the gods occur throughout the play, and the behavior of the characters is often assessed in terms of what the gods would approve or disapprove. Early in the play, Antigone draws a...
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Antigone
The central conflict in Antigone has to do with the object of one's reverence: the laws of man, or the laws of the gods. Antigone argues that the laws of the gods are much more important than the...
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Antigone
When writing a critical analysis of a literary work, you need to choose an area of focus, and you will usually include literary criticism on the text. First, you need an area of focus, which may...
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Antigone
There are several reasons why Antigone feels that it is her responsibility to bury Polynices. First, we need to remember that Polynices is Antigone's brother. So, she feels a strong attachment to...
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Antigone
The main source of conflict between Antigone and Creon is over the burial of Antigone's brother Polynices. Some background information is needed at this point. There is a civil war between the two...
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Antigone
A tragic hero is the character in a tragedy that experiences a downfall because of some kind of flaw. This flaw is called the tragic flaw. Antigone is considered the hero of the play, and she has...
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Antigone
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Gender is examined to some degree in both Antigone and The Great Gatsby, but not in strictly identical ways. In general, both works show how women are restricted in a male-dominated society and how...
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Antigone
In Antigone, Creon has hamartia and exhibits hubris. Creon is a new king in Thebes, so he is a bit insecure regarding his position among the people. As a result, Creon gets wrapped up in proving...
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Antigone
Accountability means being responsible for one's actions. It means following through with decisions and choices and holding yourself or others to a standard. When someone is accountable for their...
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Antigone
Creon has several reasons for refusing Polynices the culturally prescribed burial, just as Antigone has compelling reasons for insisting on it. He could have acted based on her reasoning,...
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In developing a thesis about the role of gender in Antigone, the first issue a writer faces is the problem of "anachronism," or importing modern ideas and ideologies into ancient texts which...
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Antigone
Ismene in the youngest daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and the sister of Antigone, Polyneices, and Eteocles. Ismene appears as a child in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and as a grown woman in Antigone...
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The fifth choral ode in Antigone is a hymn to Dionysus. Perhaps we should call it a psalm, since it not only praises the god but implores his help in healing the stricken city. The ode begins by...
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Antigone
My understanding of the play has always been that Antigone's prime motivation in burying her brother Polynieces was in order to observe the religious obligation to bury the dead. We see this in...
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Antigone
The three unities form a theory of writing for dramatic tragedies. Aristotle’s name is attached to the unities, but in truth they were invented in 1514 by the Italian and Renaissance poet and...
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Antigone
Creon's motivation is to uphold the state above all else. The rule of law supersedes all other considerations. Polyneices, though a member of his family, broke the law when he rebelled....
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Antigone
As punishment for defying Creon's express order not to bury the corpse of her brother Polynices, Antigone has been sentenced to be walled up alive. It's when she's being led away to her dreadful...
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Antigone
There are several different types of love portrayed in the play "Antigone". The most prevalent is love between family members, which is more specifically displayed as loyalty. Antigone...
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Antigone
In his play Antigone, using the two sister characters Ismene and the title character Antigone, Sophocles portrays women in two different lights. However, in general, he presents women as being...
