Antigone

Throughout the play, Antigone, moral dilemmas are often present. Creon’s decision whether or not to listen to the God’s divine laws, and Antigone’s decision on whether or not to bury Polynieces are both moral dilemmas that are essential to the play because they all reveal the true morals and beliefs of Creon and Antigone, the play’s two main characters. Antigone is the exact opposite type of person compared to Creon, in that she believes the divine law has more power over human laws. Antigone…

The classic tragedy of Antigone allows readers to follow the tragic destiny of Antigone, the ill-fated daughter of Oedipus. Throughout Antigone female gender roles are constantly spoken of in contradictory ways, posing a powerful debate about what it means to be a female. The Greek tragedy of Antigone presents a battle of opinions on traditional female gender roles; Creon supports the traditional female gender roles through his demeaning view and words he expresses towards women, which is…

Antigone and Creon both have good and bad reasons for their actions, yet Antigone has more basic reasons for her actions of peacefully disobeying an unjust law and confessing to the transgression. Burying a family member should not be an unjust law even if the family member may have done something bad which in this case, Antigone’s brother Polyneices was not in a good spot to be in due to his actions. Antigone buried her brother for three main reason. The first reason and the main reason for why…

In the story Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone and her sister Ismene had an idea of burying her brother because it was the right thing to do. There’s only one problem with this, it is illegal to bury one. Antigone and Ismene are arguing about what their plan will be, Imene is still unsure though. Ismene decides not to go along with the plan, but she wouldn’t tell anyone about Antigone’s doings. There is a new king, Creon is approached by leaders and they expressed that Creon was old and that a…

Greek drama Antigone and how I define her as heroic. At the beginning of Sophocles play, “Polynices and Eteocles (Antigone and Ismene’s brothers) kill each other in a dispute…

of the play is vengeance. Within the play, Creon is furious that Antigone buried the other brother, and wants Antigone to suffer. “The inflexible heart breaks first, the toughest iron Cracks first, and the wildest horses bend their necks At the pull of the smallest curb” (II, 78-80). This shows Creon’s irritation that someone who was a part of his family, was betraying his own decree. Creon also begins to ‘bargain’ with Antigone, hoping she will prevail and apologise. However, Creon loses his…

A hero shows bravery, courage, incredible accomplishment’s, and has good morality. Gilgamesh and Antigone are both heroes. Gilgamesh shows courage multiple times, but it could not be seen any clearer then when he surpassed the Man-Scorpion to continue his journey. The scorpion even said “No man born of woman has done what you have asked, no mortal man has gone into the mountain; the length of it is twelve leagues of darkness… (23)” I cannot even begin to imagine what walking 36 miles of darkness…

While reading Antigone I saw many sociological aspects of the myth. It was definitely trying to guide people on how the oikos and polis should interact with each other. In my opinion Sophocles was trying create a separation between household and government affairs. Burying ones loved ones would be a household affair. Antigone felt that because Polyneices was her brother and because it was a religious custom to bury ones’ love ones so they would rest in peace and not haunt the family, she needed…

Argos. Antigone wants to disobey Kreon’s orders because Polynieces is her true brother and family is very important to her. 2. The relationship between Antigone and Ismene can be described as having completely opposite personalities; however, they still love each other very dearly. I sympathize with Antigone because she is risking her life by wanting to give a proper burial for her brother, even though she is living in harsh conditions right now. Ismene genuinely for Antigone by saying…

over everything, and does not need to obey anyone. Antigone the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, siblings; Eteocles, Polynices, and Ismene. Both of Antigone’s brother killed each other in a battle between Thebes and the City of Argos. Antigone to give respect to her brother Polyneices she wants to bury him, but King Creon orders that corpse of Polynices remains unburied because of his fighting against Thebes. Although Creon orders for Polynices Antigone disobeys and is caught trying to bury her…