Antigone

In these two stories, Antigone and The Thousand and One Nights, there is King Creon and King Shahryar. During the beginning of the stories there are similarities between these kings. However, each story has a woman that helped them reflect on their decisions and see how wrong they were. Antigone and Shahrazad are both were strong and believe in justice. King Creon and King Shahryar were both misguided and made assumptions due to their past experiences. However, after Antigone and Shahrazad…

divine in the matters of the court. In Sophocles’ Antigone, there is a conflict between King Creon and Antigone as they disagree on how Antigone’s brother’s body should be dealt with. Creon declares that Patroclus’s body will remain unburied - food for the wild dogs - since he was a traitor, but Antigone thinks she should have the right to bury his body and let him pass on to the afterlife. Although both show promise in their arguments, Antigone is more correct because everyone should have the…

Having an open mind creates the possibility of accepting new ideas, but refusing to listen to others can do more harm than good. In Things Fall Apart, Antigone, and Titus Andronicus, stubbornness of the protagonist is the main conflict that leads the tragic hero to their downfall. All three tragic heroes, Okonkwo, Antigone, and Titus believe their own beliefs are the correct ones to be followed and that there's nothing wrong with it, however as the stories progress it's clear to see that this is…

Unfortunately for Antigone, that character is her. Although Creon makes bad judgments, he is not a hero because he did not make a personal sacrifice for what he believed in. Antigone resolutely believed that burying her beloved brother, Polyneices, was the conscientious thing to do, even though Creon inhibited the proper burial for whom he believed to be a traitor. Antigone believes “Creon is not strong enough to stand” in her way of doing what she thinks is right (26). Antigone chooses to…

punishment by the gods. II. Antigone, unlike Oedipus, respects the authority of fate and does not try to change the fact that she will be punished for burying Polyneices; although she meets her demise as punishment for her insubordination, she does not add to her punishment with her own actions since she did not struggle against her inevitable fate. A. Antigone is motivated to take action because she fears the fate that the gods will assign her if she does not bury him. 1. Antigone feared fate…

years ago. The first of these plays, Oedipus Rex, includes a main character named Oedipus, who became king of Thebes after fleeing his home to escape a prophecy. The final play, Antigone, is centered around a new king Creon, who automatically became king when Oedipus’ sons killed each other, and his son’s fiancee Antigone. Oedipus and Creon are affected by the judgement and evaluation of society in their respective plays, and this judgement ultimately leads to their downfalls, however this is…

of mistakes without thinking about the consequences. This quote is true in the book Antigone and in the short story “To Build a Fire”. Sophocles’ Antigone and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” shows that hubris may lead to a tragic flaw. Sophocles’ uses of plot structure shows “Pride comes before the fall”. In the exposition of “Antigone” set in Ancient Greece the tragic hero Antigone is introduced when Antigone is introduced. Tension…

Creon’s Flaw According to Other Literary Works While the various literary works such as Uttaradhyayana Sutra and Art of War do affirm Creon’s culpability in the play’s conflict; however, they disagree as to what, specifically, leads to Creon’s downfall. For example, two works, Uttaradhyayana Sutra and the Art of War both vastly differ. While the Uttaradhyayana Sutra focuses more on the individual disconnecting from the world, the Art of War places a focus on ultimately winning. Due to literary…

Antigone, the contrast and comparison of Anouilh and Sophocles Antigone, the modern version of Sophocles original play was written in France during World War II, by Jean Anouilh to reflect the situation in France at the time and is different from the original in several ways. While Jean Anouilh was writing Antigone (1943), the Germans were occupying the country of France, which seemed to fit the story of Antigone, because a revolution had taken place. The original play, written by…

types of discourse are self-image based discourse, the hidden transcript, in-between discourse, and ruptured discourse. For the purpose of this essay, focus is primarily restricted to subordinate groups comprised of women, particularly the cases of Antigone and Ismene in Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes and Hedda Gabler and Thea Elvsted in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in relation to the dominant figures of Creon and Brack, respectively. However, these are contextualised within larger…