Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles Antigone Tragic hero: Antigone An indubitably loyal humanoid cannot be questionably bribed or allured to deviate from his/her adventurous path. It is knowledgeable that loyalty is a healthy emotional feature in human activity or mentality, but in Sophocles’ Antigone, Sophocles exhibits Antigone’s loyalty as if it is not as healthy as crafted. Antigone’s loyalty sometimes tends to send her four steps behind rather than four steps forward, but Antigone is more in the state of…

What characteristics make up a tragic hero? Some characteristics of an excellent tragic hero are born into nobility, responsible for their own fate, endowed with a tragic flaw, doomed to make a serious error in judgement, meet tragic death and etc. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the play talks about how Creon became king because he was the next family member to be the ruler of the town. He came up with a law and if anyone broke it, they would face stoning in the town square. Because of…

Measuring up to Oedipus By Creon’s time, Thebes had experienced its share of great leaders. There was the titanic Oedipus, who saved the city from the curse of the Sphynx. After that, Oedipus’ son, the infallible Etocles, held the city strong against the invading armies. Both of these mighty leaders paid deep costs for their success. Scandal and death dethroned them both. This left the city in the hands of another, Creon. He was both a brother in law and uncle to Oedipus. He was a staid lawmaker…

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…

Natural will and political order have always been conflicting ideas in society. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, both of these are shown through the two main characters, Creon and Antigone. Creon, the straightforward lawmaker, sides with the law of states and fate to be the only path worth following. While Antigone, the free willed heroine, sides with divine law, letting her free will decide her fate. Both sides do have positive lights to shine on their ideals, but Creon’s over zealous…

Once Oedipus was out of the picture so many things have happened over time. Creon becomes the new king of Thebes after both princes have died. Eteocles and Polyneices were killed by each other's hands and only Eteocles was given a proper burial. There is a new law that is being enforced: No one shall bury the traitor Polyneices, anyone who buries Polyneices will be punished. Antigone hears the new law but, she immediately acts on it. Antigone actions demonstrate that loyalty to family is more…

“And as for all this talk about the militia staying here to keep the darkies from rising—why it's the silliest thing I ever heard of. Why should our people rise! It's just a good excuse of cowards." ( Gone With The Wind). This quote largely defines the mindset of several white Southerners who supported the "Lost Cause" Movement post Civil War (Janney). In Caroline E. Janney's article discussing the "Lost Cause", she explains how the movement sought to rebrand slavery by means of literature, such…

Most Important Lesson before Dying In life everyone goes through many objectives that have made them struggle. The most important idea is that people should learn from their mistakes in order to not struggle the next time it appears. The book “A Lesson before Dying” by Ernest J Gaines is a great example of many different lessons. The most important lesson in the novel is the one Jefferson acquires before he dies which is dying a man or a human being rather than a barely human or a “hog”. This…

Anthem is a rebellious novella written by a Russian-born American novelist named Ayn Rand. The Novel Anthem is mainly about a young man named Equality 7-2521, who goes against all that he has been taught. Equality discovers information that was being hidden from him by people he had trusted. He identifies himself as “I” instead of “we” standing against all the lies that have been hidden for years. But, by the end of the novel Equality 7-2521 has changed his mind becoming very critical of the…

Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in a world where we are equal? Well today you hear about a fiction book called Anthem by Ayn Rand. In the book Anthem there's a man named Equality who is different than everyone else and everyone is supposed to look and be the same. Him being different he got picked on alot in school by his teacher. Now he is a street sweeper which was not his job of choice the government picked his job for him. In the book he slowly starts to go against the…