Polynices

1. In the first stanza, the Chorus refers to the battle Polynices and his brother had and how Polynices almost destroyed the city. “Thou fairest ray” (Sophocles, Antigone, 5) is an example of personification because a ray can not be fair because it is light so it can not be fair as a human would. “Sunbeam bright! Thou fairest ray” (Sophocles, Antigone, 5) is an image of light because the sun is our largest source of light. “Him, the man with shield of white” (Sophocles, Antigone, 5) and “’Neath…

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…

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 only conquest, but also monarchy”…

important, but necessary, to maintain loyal and loving to one’s own family, despite their actions. What creates her search for justice is the issue ordered by Creon, Antigone’s uncle and current King of Thebes; it is declared an interdict to bury Polynices- the son…

remembered, but also inspire others. The choices that Antigone will make also affect all of Thebes. It’s like chemistry, and Antigone is the catalyst, the one who starts the reaction. It begins when Antigone has the simple wish to bury her brother Polynices properly. She casts dust on the body while the guards are asleep, thus causing the Sentry to be killed should he not catch the culprit. When Antigone is arrested, Ismene realizes how strong her love for her sister is and begs to be executed…

Faith is about having the courage to venture out even if it costs you. Martin says, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase” (Martin Luther King, Jr). In the Greek Literature, “The Three Theban Plays” by Sophocles, Antigone supports what she has faith in. In that she trusts to do the will of the Gods and to cover her brother. As to leave a body unburied was a wrongdoing against the Gods. But to cover Polyneices was a wrongdoing deserving of death; a rule set…

wrote a play displaying that idea instead of saying it. In Antigone the famous play 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…

being persuasive in any situation. Sophocles’ story of Antigone, daughter and sister of Oedipus, shows Antigone as a rebellious character who believes her religion and morals over her government’s demands. Following a great battle both Eteocles and Polynices, brothers of Antigone, die and Eteocles receives a proper military burial and honouring but Polyneices is deemed a traitor and is left to rot in the fields and in turn being denied an afterlife. Finding this to be ridiculous and horrible,…

The intricacy of the character of Antigone is well developed through the course of the play by Sophocles. Being a lead role in the play, Sophocles evidently intended for her character to be perhaps one of the most difficult to understand. Antigone plays a more masculine role, the laws of the city are being defied by her and no one seems to acknowledge the laws of the gods, which she feels, should be acknowledged more. Her temperament is the same in terms of her rebelliousness against Creon…

The play Antigone is intended to portray that morality is more important than the law. In order to demonstrate this, Sophocles presents a situation in which a woman is willing to go to the extremes, even facing death, in order to fight for what she believes is right. The play struggles with the idea of right versus wrong, the characters are forced to make decisions based on their conscience even if it does not coincide with the law. The purpose of laws is to set a standard of conduct for the…