Polynices

Henry David Thoreau Civil disobedience had been the word assigned to the peaceful acts that people take to stand up against laws and regulations. One of history’s greatest inspirations of civil disobedience is Henry David Thoreau. His life has been marked within the pages of history, his acts have left an impression on the people around him and his words will continue to ring throughout the future. Thoreau was many titles during his life, a philosopher, a poet, an essayist, and a man who…

fear of what the oracle Delphi had told him. This part of the myth connects how a king could be adopted in to a family and become an heir to his adopted fathers thrown. According to Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus was infuriated with his son Polynices behavior for helping to ban him from the kingdom. Pelops disowns him and curses him with the dark abyss of Tartarus, the goddesses of the Eumenides, and Ares. His authority was recovered over his son, and proves that Pelops had not done a…

Antigone is ethically obliged to provide her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. The character of Antigone is an example of how blood-relations function as an ethical duty and the tradition of burial rites. Antigone saves her brothers body from nature by burying him. This act of ethical duty makes sure that…

From the role of mistress, to housewife, to a cunning warrior, women played a big role in Ancient Greek society. Although most were denied access to power, they maintained life at home and in the family, which consequently degraded their status in society and left them with little time for themselves. But family life was a main focal point in their lives. Because women were less powerful physically, they were seen as less than men, therefore they needed men as their guardians. This caused them…

causing bloodshed between brother he still needs to convince the citizen of Thebes that he earned the throne and not cheated it. “And our two brothers died, Each killed by the others sword.”(“Antigone” 4. And we are left: For this mirage he depicted Polynices as the traitor who chose to attach his motherland in hopes of sitting on the throne. Everyone is convinced by Creon 's lies except for Antigone and Ismene. Though Ismane cowers under Creon’s power, Antigone is a strong woman who stands up…

Sophocles’ plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, and Euripides’ play, Medea, share the same three motifs: tragic flaw, betrayal, and self-righteousness; which create the conflicts in each of the three timeless Greek plays, and these motifs are rooted in way people behave. Oedipus’ tragic flaw is how he avidly seeks the truth, even to the extent that his wife would commit suicide and he blind himself. Compassion, which is usually predominant in women, causes Antigone’s downfall because she felt…

for racial equality who used nonviolence protests to ultimately create the Anti-Apartheid Movement(AAM). In Sophocles’ Antigone, the main character Antigone is faced with the choice to either follow King Creon’s inhuman law and leave her brother Polynices to rot on the field or give her brother a proper burial and face the wrath of her king. Antigone recognizes that human rights are being violated so she proceeds to bury her brother, and when accepting the consequences she remains nonviolent in…