Loyalty Quotes In Antigone

Sophocles Antigone Tragic hero: Antigone An indubitably loyal humanoid cannot be questionably bribed or allured to deviate from his/her adventurous path. It is knowledgeable that loyalty is a healthy emotional feature in human activity or mentality, but in Sophocles’ Antigone, Sophocles exhibits Antigone’s loyalty as if it is not as healthy as crafted. Antigone’s loyalty sometimes tends to send her four steps behind rather than four steps forward, but Antigone is more in the state of fit criteria towards an actual tragic hero, meaning she is morally good, consistent, and she is dedicated to what she believes is right in her quest, which shows she does not lack sense of being true to life. In the play Antigone, the position of a …show more content…
Antigone is in recognition of loyalty so bold it tends to be as broad as a brick wall because she cannot over look her wall of loyalty and it gives her fewer options in the end. Loyalty is said to be a quality everyone should have because people believe that loyalty is such an admirable quality, but in Antigone loyalty is presented as a quality that is unwelcomed in Antigone’s shoes. Antigone’s character ship in Antigone shows her flaw of loyalty, even though she was doing what she believed was right, she still wasn’t mindful for future references that may take shape and she didn’t take the drama that would be casted throughout her actions into consideration. "Very well: when my strength gives out, I shall do no more Sophocles)". Antigone was so focused on doing what was right for Polyneices she went against her tyrant king (Creon). Even though loyalty is a healthy character trait Antigone allows it to symbolize an unhealthy trait by casting selfish actions/ and or decisions. Others may realize that she had attempted a burial of someone who had gone against the people of Thebes, the king of Thebes, and also Polyneices had put everyone at risk of their safety. Others may not foresee the situation in her eyes. Part of her fatal flaw or hamartia was not only unthoughtful use of loyalty but also failing to realize how bad of a predicament her faithfulness has put her …show more content…
She shows an excessive amount of pride that caused her death and pain. Her pride is most knowledgeable when communicating or acknowledging her family. Burying her brother (Polyneices) exhibits her stubbornness and undying will; she treasures her brother enough to pay no mind to who holds her in contempt. No matter what he had done incorrectly Polyneices was still her family and she was still going to do whatever she had to do to complete her designated mission. She has every reason to be proud of her loyalty for her brother, even the king Creon has no room of telling her she is wrong, she is willing to take the punishment for her actions and that’s equal to pride. Ismene states "A hopeless quest should not be made at all (Sophocles)."Ismene being Polyneices sister, failing to protect the ideal of family and not being willing to help Antigone with the burial of Polyneices reflects sighs of her cowardness, this shows her interstrength was limited and her family morals were not as strong as her sisters. Antigone was not hubris she had no false sense in pride. Antigone didn’t mind being in the center of conflict if it meant she was