Eteocles

Five People with Huge Consequences How can one person make a difference? In the Greek dramatist Sophocles’ play Antigone, After the war of Eteocles and Polynices, Creon ends up becoming king because the two brothers killed each other. While he was king he decided to bury Eteocles and not Polynices, which angered Antigone because she thought it was immoral. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar, A group of conspirators plan to kill Caesar after they kill Caesar, Antony and Octavius…

Oedipus used to be the king of the Thebes until he died. Oedipus had two daughters and two sons. Oedipus’s daughters names are Antigone and Ismene. Oedipus’s sons names are Eteocles and Polynices. Eteocles is Oedipus’s eldest son and Polynices is his youngest son. Oedipus had agreed that after he died that his sons will share the throne. When Oedipus died he left his kingdom to his next heir but that’s not all “Alexander left behind not…

Is it wrong for the king to punish people who do not obey the law? What if those people are relatives? In 440 B.C, almost every country was a monarchy, which means the king was a lawmaker of the country and people must obey the law. The king should be a person who is strict to the law and people can rely on. Creon is qualified to be a great king; he strictly follows the law, but unfortunately he is too obsessed with the law until the point that he has no compromise and mercy. The…

In the following dramas: Antigone, A Doll House, and The Story of an Hour, there is a conflict of power between the male and female characters. In Antigone a young woman goes against her male superior and disobeys him in a display of self preservation. In A Doll House a woman defies the odds and save her husband only to leave him for another life. Lastly, in The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard believed she was free from her husband 's control only to be disappointed upon his unexpected arrival…

When any decision is made the most important factor determining its conclusion is its justice. This justice is what is of question when concluding its accuracy, whether it is moral or just another human-made law. There are many writers thought history and from those Sophocles, Martin Luther King and Immanuel Kant will be discussed upon. These writers offered various conclusions upon what is the just and the unjust. In Kant’s works he basically emphasized that the consequences of a specific…

idea of the Sophocles, Antigone story goes around the idea of divine law and state laws. The story starts with Antigone talking to her sister Ismene about the death of her brother Eteocles and Polynices and the unfairness of the king Creon. The conflict between Antigone and Creon starts when Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, kill each other in a battle. Since Polynices violated the laws, Creon orders that anyone who tries to bury Polynices will be stoned to death. When Antigone tries…

written by Sophocles, Antigone and her sister Ismene also Oedipus’s children decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polynices to avoid the fate that displays they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes. But upon her arrival in Thebes, Antigone learns that both of her brothers are dead. Eteocles has been given an…

could and he was so prideful. Creon was the king of Thebes and the uncle of Antigone. He fell because of his tragic flaw, pride. Creon was prideful in wanting to appear strong. He fought in a war to become king and he buried Eteocles, to show strength in honor. "Eteocles, who died as a man should die, fighting for his country is To be buried with full military honors." (Sophocles 777 L34) He also did not bury Polyneices to show he wasn't weak. Polyneices denied his exile and came back to fight…

Ismene is the name of the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. Ismene is the main character in the play Antigone, one of many and since she is a major player she needs to have a lot of personalities in order for not to be stale or boring. Ismene is blessed with the most thrilling of traits believing that you are nothing more than what society demands.“We must remember that by birth we’re women and as such,…

Antigone on the other hand, defines justice, as the interest of her family. She is the daughter of incest, and the sister of Eteocles, the Theban hero, and Polynices, the betrayer. Antigone believes it is unjust to unbury her own brother, while leaving him to be fed to the vultures. Therefore Polynices is obligated to have an appropriate burial. On page 63 lines 90-92 when confronting with Ismene to help her lay their brother to rest, Antigone states “ I have longer to please the dead than…