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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Antigone is the closest thing to a humanist in this play, mainly because she is willing to defy the state for her moral principles—in this case, making sure her brothers are buried properly....
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In ancient Greek drama, the chorus is a group that comments collectively on the play's action and context. The role of the chorus is to provide information not revealed in dialogue, such as context...
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Even though Creon has ordered the death of Antigone, his son Haemon's intended wife, Haemon doesn't challenge his father directly or react emotionally. Instead, he approaches Creon reasonably and...
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Antigone is a tragic hero who makes at least two mistakes which contribute to her death: she takes an unbending course of action which leads, ultimately, to self-martyrdom; she refuses to suffer...
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The first thing we have to ask when considering hamartia in Antigone is, whose hamartia are we discussing? Antigone's name is at the top of the program, but is she the tragic hero of her own play?...
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Antigone is most definitely filled with allusions to Greek mythology. Since an allusion is a moment when one author refers to a piece of literature, and since mythology stories, especially about...
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Arguably the most important theme of the play is the conflict between human law and a higher moral law set down by the gods. The law of Thebes, as laid down by Creon, says that Antigone's brother...
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Creon's decree could be said to be unjust in that it seems rather vindictive of him not to allow Antigone to bury her brother's corpse. As well as going against the will of the gods, Creon's decree...
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In Scene IV the chorus states that the tomb she will die in will be her 'wedding chamber' which is a reference the Antigone being the Bride of Death/Hades. This is a metaphor connecting Antigone to...
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Antigone is a Greek play, and the Chorus is the narrator. The Chorus in a Greek play provides the narration. Unlike modern plays, the Chorus was actually a big part of the telling of the story....
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Works Cited stands in place of a Bibliography in research papers. Works Cited may have different particular requirements depending upon the writing style guide being used by the academic...
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Antigone is one of the classic Greek tragedies and many contemporary plays continue to draw inspiration from it. In the play, Antigone faces off with Creon, the new king, who orders that she cannot...
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Sophocles' play Antigone most definitely has the characteristic Aristotle defines as "character consistency." Aristotle asserts in his Poetics that one aspect of a well-written tragedy is that it...
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Sophocles uses Creon to present several morals in the play Antigone. Sophocles wrote the play at a time when Athens was a democracy. It has been pointed out that Sophocles was not only a playwright...
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Antigone is in trouble because she has buried the body of her brother, Polyneices. Creon had ordered that this not be done because he was a rebel, trying to overthrow Creon as king. Creon believes...
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Antigone's sister is named Ismene. At the beginning of the play, Antigone tries to persuade Ismene to help her bury their brother Polyneices, whose body was left to rot on the battlefield. However,...
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Haimon pleads earnestly (and respectfully) to Creon to have him consider a reversal of his original decree of death to the person (or persons) who buried Polynices. In this scene, the tension...
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In his conversation with Teiresias, Creon reveals himself to be arrogant, stubborn, and cynical. Because the prophet advises him to reverse himself, bury Polyneices, and free Antigone, Creon...
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In Sophocles' Antigone, the playwright does not comment very much on any of these three characters and only Eurydice appears on stage or has a speaking role during the play (and it is a very brief...
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I do not see these two as being of the same genre, but their similarities, in general, may be what your son's teacher is looking for. I hope the following helps. The definition of "genre" according...
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Both men are kings, obviously. They are kings because of their pride, hubris, which both guides them in attaining their power and inevitably leads to their downfall. Oedipus uses his pride in his...
