Examples Of Disgrace In Antigone

There are many various people in this world. Some have traits that describe their personalities as good, pure ones, and some have or maintain traits that display their personalities and their own selves as humans, to be substandard or inferior ones. These traits are determined by several different situations that these people get involved in. These events also display that if what each of these individuals did was done out of honor or disgrace. This relates to the characters in the poem, Antigone. Antigone’s characters that include Eteocles, Polynieces, Ismene, and Antigone herself, all have characteristics or traits that define who they are as people, and if they have or represent honor or disgrace. Therefore, Antigone, the poem contains many events that involve honor and disgrace because each of these characters have certain …show more content…
Eteocles is brave and courageous because he decided to fight his brother Polynieces after Polynieces claimed that he would fight him for the throne, he wanted to confront his brother and prove that he was worthy of claiming or gaining right heir or position to the throne or authority. This also shows determination because he didn’t stop or restrict himself from fighting until he was dead; killed by his own brother. Evidence of this claim would be when it was stated in the poem that: “..Two sisters lost two brothers, a double death in a single hour, and I know that the Argive army fled in the night…”. This was stated by Ismene, Antigone’s sister, which shows that Eteocles as well as his brother Polynieces fought until they were dead to maintain honor. Eteocles maintains honor when he fought for his land and for his people, to represent the city of Thebes unlike his brother, who was greedy for the throne, starting the civil war that ended them both. Eteocles shows disgrace when he fights his own brother, his own blood and flesh on his own