Sophocles

It takes a great deal of faith and courage to put family before the state. Would someone risk her own life to do what is right for her family? These are some of the challenges that Antigone, the tragic hero in Sophocles play Antigone, faces. She is torn between the decision of doing the right thing to bury her brother Polyneices or be a good citizen and follow the law and not bury him. Antigone, being stubborn as she is, does the right thing and buries her brother. By her doing that, it…

Since Creon is King he believes, he has the power over everything, and does not need to obey anyone. Antigone the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, siblings; Eteocles, Polynices, and Ismene. Both of Antigone’s brother killed each other in a battle between Thebes and the City of Argos. Antigone to give respect to her brother Polyneices she wants to bury him, but King Creon orders that corpse of Polynices remains unburied because of his fighting against Thebes. Although Creon orders for Polynices…

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…

In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the characters Oedipus and Jocasta play with fate and eventually earn their terrible end through the poor decisions they make throughout the play. Oedipus and Jocasta's rage, hubris, blindness, and distrust in the gods lead to their ultimate downfall and pain they experience. Although Oedipus' and Jocasta's destinies appear to be predetermined by prophecy, their individual actions, in fact, are the true cause of their downfalls. Rage and hubris, two of the…

Lord Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. In Antigone by Sophocles, power plays a huge role. Creon is a ruler who has gone mad with newfound power and authority. How much power is too much, quote about power. The play Antigone focuses on the royal family of Thebes. Antigone, Creon’s niece, disagrees with Creon’s laws since the Gods are against corpses not being buried, and decides to do things her own way. She sets out to bury her brother, but…

Sophocles, through one of his greatest tragedies Antigone, touches on several timeless ideals in society, and how the lack of one and excess of another can result in dire ramifications. It follows the story of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, a rebellious young woman who decides to give Polynices, her brother, proper burial rites after a battle, in defiance of the law decreed by Creon, the King. One of the topics that the Greek dramatist touches on is powerlessness and the resulting lack of choice…

In this paper, I will be looking at two characters from our writing; Sophocles’ Oedipus of Oedipus the King and Euripides’ Medea from Medea. In these two characters, we can see two reactions to difficulty and misfortune. With Media, we have a woman who loses her husband and becomes murderous, hateful and dangerous. Oedipus who learns that he murdered his own father and married his mother, becomes self-destructive. In Sophocles story, Oedipus is very intelligent and civilized. In his search for…

By defination,the beginnig is that which does not presuppose anything else to have gone before it. Although Sophocles' play focuses attention only on the last day of Oedipus' long rule over Thebes, we do not feel the need of any information about what has gone before, when we read the prologue of the play. In fact earlier events are related by Jocasta and Oedipus in the liter part of the play. The middle is that which is necessary and logical sequence of the beginning. The first episode of…

Iocaste dead he "ripped from her gown the golden brooches that were her ornament, and raised them, and plunged them down straight into his own eyeballs, crying 'No more, no more shall you look on the misery about me, the horrors of my own doing!" (Sophocles 69). He becomes literally blind to hide his eyes from his shame and wrong doing. Bandana however, did not come to an understanding of what he had done. The man also had "an unloaded semi-automatic handgun [that] was found on the front seat.…

other. In my opinion Sophocles was trying create a separation between household and government affairs. Burying ones loved ones would be a household affair. Antigone felt that because Polyneices was her brother and because it was a religious custom to bury ones’ love ones so they would rest in peace and not haunt the family, she needed to bury her brother. However, Creon (the government) interfered with Antigone’s wishes because Polyneices was a trader. Although Sophocles killed off Antigone in…