Sophocles

decided it was best to follow her moral obligation to bury her brother Polyneices rather that follow Creon's decree and she was right to do so. Antigone and Creon are on two different sides of the spectrum when it comes to religious and civic duties. Sophocles sided with Antigone and so did a specific reader. With that said let’s explore the possibilities. Antigone beleived that she had the moral obligation to bury her brother Polyneices. That however was against Creon’s decree which said that…

both physical and moral falls. They are starting to do a lot of mistakes without thinking about the consequences. This quote is true in the book Antigone and in the short story “To Build a Fire”. Sophocles’ Antigone and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” shows that hubris may lead to a tragic flaw. Sophocles’ uses of plot structure shows “Pride comes before the fall”. In the exposition of “Antigone” set in Ancient Greece the tragic hero Antigone is introduced when Antigone is introduced.…

her brother so that he may pass over into the afterlife. Both characters believe that what they are doing is the right thing to do. Neither one of them want to put their pride aside and reason with the other. Sophocles’ Antigone demonstrates that excessive pride can cause great regret. Sophocles illustrates this concept though the protagonist/antagonist description, hamartia, and anagnorisis. It is often easy to determine the protagonist and the antagonist in…

Introduction: Euripides was one of greatest playwrights and poets of classical Greece. He was the 3rd and the last of Athenian tragedians after Aeschylus and Sophocles. Due to a quaint accident of history, eighteen of his 95 plays have survived in a complete form, along with some substantial fragments of many of his other plays. He is primarily famous for having adapted the formal structure of traditional Greek tragedy by portrayal of strong female characters and smart slaves, and by satirizing…

desires to do without looking back once. Similarly, Oedipus follows the same mindset as Marcus regarding being rebellious to those not in favour of an individual’s actions and being determined to accomplish any task. In Oedipus the King, the characteristic of Oedipus being determined to find the murder of King Laius is rather his downfall as it leads to his own unfortunate shortcoming. During that time, Oracles were given much respect as they provided insight about specific events, making it…

It is evident that over the years the classic tragedy has experienced changes in its definition and in its idea of conflict. Sophocles saw the tragic hero in the framework of the Greek concept of law, crime and punishment. In Oedipus Rex the main focus is on King Oedipus who is combating an internal conflict that involves incest, impurity and sin. Through the concept of discovery Oedipus’ relationship with god, his parents, wife and children comes into question. He struggles with the notion that…

In the play, Antigone by Sophocles, a young woman named Antigone is torn between being a convenient, obedient citizen and a rebellious, law-defying woman in order to pursue her own moral self-interests. Antigone is portrayed as a strong-willed woman who strives to re-shape female stereotypes during ancient Greece and in doing so, clashes with King Creon, and her own sister, Ismene. Antigone has no regard for life as she perceives death as a glorious reward that will satisfy her motive to bury…

Antigone, one of the main issues raised by Sophocles is moral belief and its relationship with secular law. Sophocles throughout the story touches on the point of secular law not taking precedence over religious law. Sophocles uses this theme in the story to make the case that sometimes it is better to follow moral code and not secular code, as Antigone did. Firstly, Creon followed his own laws over the gods, which resulted in great misfortune for him, Sophocles uses this as evidence that…

Picture this. An oracle has just told you that you’re doomed to murder your father and marry your mother. What do you do next? In the Greek tragedy, Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, Oedipus receives this fate from an oracle named Tiresias and immediately runs from Corinth to escape his destiny. Along his journey, Oedipus murders a man on the road named Laius. Oedipus later realizes that Laius was his biological father. Once Oedipus arrives at the city of Thebes, he defeats the Sphinx and…

At a point in everyone's life, you must break a rule to do what is morally just. In the play, Antigone by tragedian Sophocles, the main character, Antigone, rebels against the king to do what is right. Though Antigone’s actions were good-hearted, she caused a terrible unforeseen tragedy. Antigone buried her brother, though it was explicitly prohibited by king Creon, knowing it would mean her death. She did this to give her brother the burial he deserved and to fulfill the natural law of the gods…