Thebes

On the day of his birth, Sandepidis, son of Muzaine the leader of the revolt in Madagascar and the ghost of ancient Queen Beatrise, was removed from Madagascar and banished to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. For it was King Pterniusaka’s fear of the potential power embezzled in this child and the threat he may pose to his tyrannical rule that possessed Pterniusaka to order the banishment. On that same brutally hot day in 499 CE, Pterniusaka ordered his men to capture Muzaine, and to bring him…

Antigone has the difficulty of deciding whether burying her brother is worth the risk of death. It all started when Oedipus and Jocasta both committed suicide because they realized that Jocasta was Oedipus’ mom. Since Oedipus was the leader of Thebes, they had to appoint a new leader. Usually, the father’s son would be the one to take over the city according to the Greek culture. However, Oedipus has two sons: Polynices and Eteocles. They decided that they would split off leading the town.…

biases are quite prevalently used to portray the inequality between men and women in a misogynistic society. Sophocles used the major conflict between Kreon and Antigone to demonstrate this ideology. Kreon, who was Antigone’s uncle and the ruler of Thebes, would not listen to her reasoning simply because she was a woman. To this effect, the community viewed Antigone as a rebellious, headstrong woman for the same reasons. However if she were a man, she would have been treated differently. Her…

Creon has the rightful rule of the city of Thebes because he was born into a family of power and virtue. He also had the natural rule over Antigone because she was a woman and men were superior to women because Aristotle saw the women as less rational than the men. The law set forth by Creon to dishonor…

actions since she did not struggle against her inevitable fate. A. Antigone is motivated to take action because she fears the fate that the gods will assign her if she does not bury him. 1. Antigone feared fate and the gods much like the elders of Thebes, who “[fainted] with fear of what fate [Zeus would fashion] for [them].” (349) 2. Fate was a motivating factor for characters in Greek dramas to do things that they would not have otherwise done; in this case, Antigone decides to take a risk and…

would do risking his or her life. Even though Ismene and Antigone have different ways of seeing things, they still connect in how they are blood-related sisters. Although, they are not the only characters involved in the play; Creon, the ruler of Thebes is also involved with…

Antigone begins with the conquest of Thebes, a Greek city-state. The ruler of Thebes, Oedipus, stepped down and gave both of his sons, Eteocles and Polynices power to rule Thebes. The only condition was that they must alternate being king on a yearly basis. However, Eteocles refused to give up his power at the end of the year and exiled his brother Polynices from Thebes. In anger of being exiled, Polynices travels to the nearby city-states to gather an army to retake Thebes from his brother…

Creon the King of Thebes The play Antigone takes place around 441 BC. The setting of the play Antigone is in ancient Greece. In ancient Greece the king is the most powerful person. There are nine characters in the play Antigone. The characters names from weakest to most powerful are Eurydice, haimon, A Messenger, A Sentry, Teiresias, Ismene, Antigone, The Chorus, and Creon. Creon is the king of the Thebes. That means that he is the most powerful person in the play Antigone. In the play Antigone…

related to the woman? To help visualize the brief description in the previous paragraph and better understand what I will analyze throughout this paper, this painting conveys the story of Niobe and her 14 children. In this painting, “Niobe, the queen of Thebes, shelters her youngest daughter from the arrows of Apollo and Diana, who have already slaughtered her other children. Their corpses litter the foreground of the painting. This violent scene, drawn from Ovid 's Metamorphoses, illustrates…

1. Kreon orders burial honors for Eteocles, but forbids burial for Polynieces because Eteocles chooses to be loyal and to stand with the army of Thebes, while Polynieces chooses to be a traitor and to stand with the army of Argos. Antigone wants to disobey Kreon’s orders because Polynieces is her true brother and family is very important to her. 2. The relationship between Antigone and Ismene can be described as having completely opposite personalities; however, they still love each other very…