The Man With The Sword and Me
Put yourself in someone else's shoes" a quote as old as time. One sees what they see; how they see it. This skill can be used in literature and in life to further connect to those in the story or in your surroundings. In the play "Antigone" many people accomplish tasks and speak phrases that we could find strange and unreasonable, a woman sacrifices her future life just so she could keep a promise, a man dies because he found a woman dead? Strange, that is until one does what is older than time and put himself into their shoes and see why they made the decisions they did. I found parallels to the characters Haemon and myself, to better understand why he behaved the way that he did. We will be finding the similarities …show more content…
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” --Robert Kennedy. Standing up and speaking out is one of the noblest phenomena an individual could do. Haimon shows his strength of character when he finds out his father was going to kill his bride to be …show more content…
I sometimes say things that I regret later, my tongue can be a bit loose when it comes to snapping at others. Haemon is the same way, we can be a spectator of this attitude as Haemon speaks with his father about the state of the kingdom and what not, it quickly turns into an argument. You see all this from approximate scene four line thirty to line one hundred and thirty. Specifically, as he finally says what he was building up to, "You have no right to trample on God's right." (4:113) After this happens, Creon, his father, has an uncontrollable rage come upon him. And their relationship snaps beyond the point of repair. Akin to Haemon, there have been instances where I say things before pondering the consequences to come
Put yourself in someone else's shoes" a quote as old as time. One sees what they see; how they see it. This skill can be used in literature and in life to further connect to those in the story or in your surroundings. In the play "Antigone" many people accomplish tasks and speak phrases that we could find strange and unreasonable, a woman sacrifices her future life just so she could keep a promise, a man dies because he found a woman dead? Strange, that is until one does what is older than time and put himself into their shoes and see why they made the decisions they did. I found parallels to the characters Haemon and myself, to better understand why he behaved the way that he did. We will be finding the similarities …show more content…
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” --Robert Kennedy. Standing up and speaking out is one of the noblest phenomena an individual could do. Haimon shows his strength of character when he finds out his father was going to kill his bride to be …show more content…
I sometimes say things that I regret later, my tongue can be a bit loose when it comes to snapping at others. Haemon is the same way, we can be a spectator of this attitude as Haemon speaks with his father about the state of the kingdom and what not, it quickly turns into an argument. You see all this from approximate scene four line thirty to line one hundred and thirty. Specifically, as he finally says what he was building up to, "You have no right to trample on God's right." (4:113) After this happens, Creon, his father, has an uncontrollable rage come upon him. And their relationship snaps beyond the point of repair. Akin to Haemon, there have been instances where I say things before pondering the consequences to come