Creon

As one can see, I created two masks that coincide with characters in the book. The character that I chose to analyze was Antigone, but I made a mask for Creon to act as a comparison to Antigone to portray my selected theme to a greater extent. Attributes to the Antigone mask include: makeup, red lips, dirt, and a mirror. In addition, the characteristics of Creon’s mask include; teardrops, cracked lips…

THE STORY OF CREON AND HIS SON “Father the people in the streets are saying she should not die” is something that haemon say stop his father . Haemon tries to convince his father to not to kill Antigone so it wont angry the gods. He is angry with his father for putting his soon to be wife to death as well not caring for his feelings. He wants his father to chose the side of the gods. He tries convince his father not to kill Antigone so it wont angry the gods. He says the gods are all…

Right and Wrong in Antigone and Wikileaks Some of the decisions that individuals make on a daily basis have significant repercussions. Whereas these consequences may impact individuals directly, sometimes they may have an effect on an individual’s surrounding as a whole. As will be demonstrated in this paper, some of the choices can have detrimental implications on the State. It is worth noting that the Greek civilization was characterized by a collection of numerous city states including Argos,…

Paper I: Moral and Religious Obligations at Odds Antigone and Creon conflict on the moral and religious perceptions of each other is not because of their major differences in their conceptions, it is because of their rigid and extreme way in which they hold their conceptions. The reason as to this is because they have a different character, or rather a different up bringing hence their mode of understanding does not match. Difference in their political situation and being in different families…

time dared to be, Antigone, disobeyed the authority of a man. Her story makes her one of the first and most powerful heroines. After her brother Eteocles is killed by her brother Polyneices, Antigone is heartbroken. She learns the succeeding king, Creon, demands that it becomes illegal to bury Polyneices, due to his treason. Antigone, infuriated by the injustice, attempts to enlist her sister Ismene in an effort to secretly bury their neglected brother. Fearful of the consequences of defying a…

After the death of her brother Polyneices and father Oedipus, Antigone’s collective unconscious retreats into an inner conflict between life and death, paralleled in her the derivatives of her name, Anti-gone equating to against birth. Her sense of self is compelled towards in the identities of the dead, particularly exemplified in her morals embedded in her family’s honour. She becomes the epitome of the living death, whereby manifestations of love in marriage and children have been forbidden…

see the truth. Oedipus wanted to find out how to rid the plague but he must first reveal who the killer that murdered Laius. Creon insisted that Oedipus should visit the seer, Tiresias. Tiresias hesitated about telling Oedipus the truth because he knows that it would only cause pain. Oedipus finds out the truth that he was the killer, but then thinks that Tiresias and Creon are plotting against him. Oedipus ends up blinding himself because he could not bear the prophecy of his…

In the play Antigone by Sophocles, there are many greek values present in the play however, the virtue of family prominent throughout the story line. In greek culture family is very valuable. Family is a bond held together by love and trust and loyalty that can never be broken. Throughout the play this love is expressed in many ways.. In the play Haimon, Polyneices and Antigone display the love and trust accompanied with family. In the text Sophocles writes, “But I must bury him; and if I must…

“O my friend, my kind friend,/ Are you still there for me, then,/ Reaching out from your steady hold/ To touch my disfigured heart?/ Faithful to the end/ Now I am blind,/ Attending me patiently,/ Still the necessary witness./ You’re there, I know. That familiar voice/ Comes through all my darkness./ It’s you, my friend” (Sophocles 1441-1450). The Chorus in Oedipus Rex consists of Theban elders. In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the Chorus effectively fulfills its function as impartial advisors by…

"It was not Zeus who made this proclamation; nor was it Justice dwelling with the gods below who set in place such laws as these for humankind; nor did I think that your proclamations had such strength that, mortal as you are, you could outrun those laws that are the gods', unwritten and unshakable”( lines 450-457). In the Greek tragedy Antigone, written by philosopher Sophocles, the author presents a plethora of timeless themes that never lose their relevance. Amongst these themes is the idea…