Ismene

readings I’ve like the most in this semester - Persepolis and Antigone. In the book Persepolis and Antigone we can see a lot love between family. Especially in Antigone, we can see how love between family is important. It not only let Antigone and Ismene risk their life by helping/ defending for whom they love, but it also change the tyrant - Ceron. Ceron is a character where he thinks power is the most important thing, and he is cold blooded by wanting Antigone dead just because of burying her…

laws, not a civil law. At last, he kills himself because he disappointed at his father of a foolish, because Haimon values nothing else, but the love towards to family: “Nothing is closer to me than your happiness” (Scene 3, 70). Antigone’s sister, Ismene is a representative figure for expressing of how all the citizens feel about the civil law. She shows that she is terrified of disobeying the Creon’s order and tries to stop Antigone from her imprudence. However, she wants to be with her…

Two of my foil characters that I picked out of the play Antigone, which was originally written by Sophocles but translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, are Antigone and Creon. Foiling characters means that they shows qualities that are in contrast to each other. This basically highlights the traits of the other character. These two characters are so different. Antigone is the round protagonist; which means we know a lot about her, and she is the main, good, leading figure. While Creon…

three plays called The Theban Plays. Antigone 's entire family has been plagued with a curse that has killed her parents. Her two brothers have perished as well after a large battle over the thrown. All she has left is her uncle and her dear sister Ismene. When Antigone breaks Creons law and buries her traitorous brother she is sentenced to be locked away forever. All of this brought a curse on Creon and his family which led to his tragic end. Aristotle defines tragedy as "an imitation of an…

In the Greek play Antigone by Sophocles, the character Creon had a tragic flaw. He wanted to appear as strong as he 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…

pride. In lines 25-30 Antigone gives us a clear picture of Creon’s rule over the land. When she asks her sister to help her bury their brother, she has made it plain to her that she understands the law and is acting out of moral, familial obligation. Ismene doesn’t come close to feeling the level of family moral obligation that her sister does. She isn’t willing to die because of Creon’s law, not even to show respect for her dead brother.…

He becomes so insulted by the fact Antigone, a woman, was the one who defied his law, that he even stated that antigone and ismene will be imprisoned until the day of their execution and as woman they should not be allowed to roam"Our women henceforth must be kept, As women—suffered not to roam abroad.” Creon is so prideful as a man that he does not have respect for woman. His…

As Sophocles wrote in Antigone, “I too have a duty that I must discharge to the dead” (438) This is Ismene speaking to Antigone about burying her brother’s body. This is an excellent example of how women felt in Ancient Greece: they felt like it was their duty to society to bury their loved ones after they had died. This is seen in many different religions…

C.S.Lewis once said in the book Mere Christianity that,“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” This means that if you are always looking down on others you never get a chance to see who is above you so you often that assume it is you. This is dangerous because, once the people who are above you realize this, you will be put back in your place. In Sophocles's Greek tragedy, Antigone,…

For all its negative connotations portrayed by the media, civil disobedience is a necessity in a democratic system to bring about foundational changes to the government. Civil disobedience is defined as “refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something” (Merriam Webster). History and literature has many cases of civil disobedience: Antigone burying her brother Polyneices, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr.’s protests for civil rights, and Mahatma Gandhi’s…