Antigone

characters as the original Antigone, he has written the story for his time with a different meaning. Anouilh’s adaptation does not follow the same fate or religion shown in Sophocles’ version. I will be discussing the differences between these two stories starting with the chorus, the dialogue between characters, and the personalities of the characters themselves. @The first major difference a reader can see right away between Sophocles and Anouilh 's version of Antigone is their different…

ahead of time makes the audience lose the element of surprise/life being loss. It makes the audience feel strong emotion toward Antigone from the start. The Chorus in Jean Anouilh's Antigone is very much different from Sophocles’ version. As said the chorus opens the play with a long explanation of background of the characters and the events of the play. In Sophocles’ Antigone, the audience would've known these details. Anouilh seems to be narrating the story and giving some important background…

Sophocles’ tragic play has remained relevant for well over two thousand years because the same conflicts that happened in the play still happen to this day. The opposing beliefs of Antigone and Creon lead to their inevitable fate because they are unwilling to compromise due to their firm stance on their beliefs. The main issues that divide them include; Antigone’s defiance of laws and her strong loyalty to her family, while Creon’s pride and obligation to fulfill his commitment as king proves to…

The play Antigone is intended to portray that morality is more important than the law. In order to demonstrate this, Sophocles presents a situation in which a woman is willing to go to the extremes, even facing death, in order to fight for what she believes is right. The play struggles with the idea of right versus wrong, the characters are forced to make decisions based on their conscience even if it does not coincide with the law. The purpose of laws is to set a standard of conduct for the…

Antigone is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles, which is the third of the Theban plays, but was the first written. The female hero of the story shows intense flashes of leadership, toughness and doesn’t easily fold under pressure. Standing up against the ruler, also her uncle Creon. Antigone, although discouraged by others along the way, especially with even living after her mission is complete are slim. The more important fact of her being a female emboldened by a strong no holds barred belief of…

Antigone and the Death of a Salesman Most plays focus on a central theme. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Antigone by Sophocles are two examples of plays which use betrayal as their central theme. Antigone is a Greek play by Sophocles. It is a Greek tragedy full of loyalty, betrayal, love and death. The play Antigone features many central themes with betrayal being the main theme of the story. The theme of betrayal is evident in the beginning of the play when the king Creon betrays…

Antigone tells the story of two characters, Antigone and Creon, who go against each other’s pride to defend their own. Creon, the King of Thebes, declares punishment upon Antigone for trying to illegally bury her deceased brother after he committed a crime. Antigone is trying to bury her brother so that he may pass over into the afterlife. Both characters believe that what they are doing is the right thing to do. Neither one of them want to put their pride aside and reason with the other.…

Antigone and the Importance of Moral and Ethical Codes How can you convey the theme of betrayal and moral/ethical codes through a family tree? This was the dilemma I faced when I began to plan my visual aspect of my Antigone project. On one side, my tree is a very literal layout of Antigone's relatives. There is representation of her family all the way back to Cadmus, and the family extends out even into the gods Zeus and Dionysus. With pullout explanations on the side, we learn where each of…

Ancient Greece is known for many things; their philosophies, legends and most importantly, theater. Greek theater is one of the major features of Greek culture, as it displayed various aspects of how the Greeks led their lives. Antigone is a tragedy written by the playwright Sophocles, and is the third of his three Theban plays. Each of these plays have common elements and themes which Sophocles displays using his characters. An example of this is shown in the way Sophocles highlights the…

Antigone Moral Hierarchy Essay When Antigone arrives in Thebes she hears that both her brothers Polynieces and Eteocles had died. Eteocles had received a proper burial but Polynieces had not because Creon, Antigone’s uncle who had the throne said that he was a traitor and an enemy. Antigone then buried Polynieces herself. And didn’t care about the consequences. Each character in Antigone has a stage in Kohlberg’s Moral Development hierarchy that they can identify with . In the play…