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world to do with what they please with the actuality of the situation. But then throughout the play the body is rough, buried by Antigone, which represents her attempts to use the truth even if they were thin and unplanned. Therefore, at the end when Creon finally decided to acknowledge the truth, it was too late. The truth – Polyneices’s body – is decayed and torn to shreds; resembling that when it is too late the truth means nothing in the grand scheme of life. Because in the end, the truth…

determination allowed him to make the mistake of returning to France after he was exiled and fight again during The Hundred Days, which only led to him being exile once more to the island of St. Helena where he would die six years later. Oedipus, Creon, and Napoleon all used their pride and determination to help them become kings. Despite this, these same traits lead to the downfall of all three kings. These traits in moderation help give confidence and make people want to reach their goals,…

fighting for what they think is morally the right think to do like every other archetype. After analyzing both stories, a similarity that is emphasized is that both conflicts are person vs person. In Antigone’s case she has to defy the law set by Creon while in Erin’s situation she is suing a corporation called PG&E for the harm they caused the people of Hinckley, California. They do not just have the same type of conflict but also they both are in conflicts with people that have more power and…

Johnston explained how she felt about Antigone’s choice about dying. She went against to Creon law, which led her to death. When we refer to “Antigone’s choice,” we typically mean the choice that Antigone makes in undertaking to bury Polyneices against her uncle’s wishes” (Johnston .3). Moreover, Johnston explains that women sacrifices to make…

Sophocles wrote the play Antigone in 441 B.C., and he is one of the three Greek tragedian writers. Sophocles lived from 496 B.C. to 406 B.C. and he is from Athens, Greece. Shakespeare wrote the play Othello in 1622 A.D, and he is known as one of the best play writes ever, Shakespeare is from Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. The two texts that are going to be compared are Antigone, written by Sophocles, and Othello, written by Shakespeare. Both writers are very distinct from each other and…

Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero includes the following five characteristics hamartia, which is in an error in judgement or a big mistake, hubris, which is violence that is offensive to the gods or disregard to others, peripeteia, which is a reversal of fortune, anagnorisis, which is when the tragic hero realizes the reversal of fortune, and then the fate should be too cruel to the hero. Agamemnon fits this description of tragic hero. Agamemnon destroys shrine while he is fighting the war…

to others, and dying all for her brother is what made Antigone a tragic hero. Antigone knew what she wanted to do was wrong. She understood that the success of her giving her brother a proper burial would result in either bad punishment or death. Creon and her sister warned her, but she refused to back down. She knew the cost and she was still willing to do it. She was very fearless and a bit stubborn about the situation. “I do admit it. I do not deny it.” –Antigone 372 Even though Antigone…

their shared profession of being King of Thebes. Their Uncle Creon obtained the role of King and deemed who was to receive a proper burial. Polynices was deemed a traitor to Thebes and was deemed to rot but Eteocles was deemed a proper burial to be honored. Antigone wanted to give Polynices a burial and in the opening scene she…

The Tragic Destiny of Oedipus Oedipus the king by Sophocles is a distressing play filled with transgression, grief, and tragedies. The unfortunate incidents that the tragic hero, Oedipus, goes through invoke catharsis in the readers. He has been prophesied a dreadful fortune and feels as though “...no one suffers more than [him]” (Sophocles 27).Foretold destiny cannot be derailed as fate will always interfere and insure that the prophecy is fulfilled. Moreover, every tragic hero has a tragic…

However, in “The Libation Bearers”, justice is performed with the help of violence, while in “Antigone”, violence is the result of justice. When Creon prohibited burying Polyneices because he was believed to be a traitor, Antigone could not put up with this decision made by her royal uncle. According to Antigone, it was unfair to let Polyneices rot, while the other brother, Eteocles had a proper…