acts with distinct awareness of his masculinity‚ and is otherwise free. While he may have the hubristic audacity to make divine decrees‚ he is not a god by any means. The gods exist as a third party (though not truly an “other”) who are invoked by Antigone to justify her actions. Creon is also alive and therefore is not party to the true alterity‚ or the
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Decision The play Antigone is a story‚ where the tragic hero Creon is forced to make important decisions because Antigone covered her brother’s body with dust. It was a bad idea on the part of Antigone because she broke a law and was punished for it. Also because Antigone’s actions led to the deaths of three innocent people. Sophocles conveys the conflict to the reader to whether it was right or wrong for Antigone to cover her brother’s body. The fact that it was a law for Antigone not to cover the
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Nyambura Kimani Name: Sophocles Location: Greece Dates of Life: Born: Hippeios Colonus‚ Athens‚ Greece Died: 406 BC‚ Classical Athens Sophocles served as a general in the siege of Samos‚ in 440 B.C. It was on an island that challenged the authority of Athens. It is possible that he had served another term as a general in 426 B.C. or 415 B.C. He later took part in a commission to investigate the Athenian military defeat in 413 B.C. located in Sicily in 413 B.C. Sophocles made negotiations with
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In Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ Creon dominates the play with his powerful yet arrogant personality. Even though Antigone is the name of this play‚ Creon‚ the ruling king of Thebes with a no turning back attitude‚ proves to be the main character. Creon rules over everyone but that does not stop the intelligent Antigone from protecting her brothers dead body. She gets caught in this illegal act by the very dynamic character of Creon. There are endless personality traits to describe Creon‚ but certain
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Oedipus Paper The Theban plays taught ancient Greeks that there were four things that should be learned and lived by in order to be a good person and a good leader. The chorus outlined these things in the last lines of "Antigone" (pg 162). According to the chorus‚ Of happiness the crown And chiefest part Is wisdom‚ and to hold The gods in awe. This is the law That‚ seeing the stricken heart Of pride brought down‚ We learn when we are old. These lines simply put‚ state that wisdom is good
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(hubris)‚ blind recklessness (ate)‚ and disastrous retribution (nemesis). Though most mythological heroes contain these qualities‚ Sophocles developed his own heroic personality. The sophoclean tragic hero is "one whose rigid and courageous loyalty to particular principles invites a disastrous fate" (Antigone Pg.14). Creon acting a classical tragic as well as Antigone‚ a sophoclean tragic heroes‚ both personify their personalities through their actions.
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The title of this play is Antigone. It was written by Sophocles. Creon is a tragic hero because he suffers a horrible fate‚realizes flaw‚and learns from his mistake. Creon suffers a horrible fate. His pride leads him onto suffering. He’s failed from his power and happiness. The messenger said‚”Haemon is dead‚and the hand that killed him was his own.”(Page 1103‚Lines 19-20) Because of what Creon did that caused Polyneices to never be buried and Antigone be locked away in a cave‚ Creon would suffer
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the concept of a tragic hero‚ introduced by the Greek philosopher‚ Aristotle. In Antigone by the Greek playwright Sophocles‚ it is established that Creon is not a tragic hero of the play. Creon was shown to blame others for the outcome of his own mistakes‚
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The period that Athens’ Sophocles lived in was a time of important changes to the traditional Greek ways of life. The most significant catalyst of change and concern of the period was democracy. From here stems ideas such as the nature‚ role and respect of and for the gods‚ and the individual. The drama of Antigone reflects these concerns in the context it was written through various ways. Athens in the middle of the fifth century BC was at the peak of its power. It attracted foreigners‚ writers
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Antigone Antigone deals with the conflicts arising from three demands made upon the human psyche: the demands of religion (Zeus); the demands of the state (Thebes); and the demands of human instincts (Aphrodite). Characters like Antigone represent how firm beliefs and a strong sense of religion can impact an individual’s thoughts and actions. When Antigone was put before King Creon to defend herself she says to him “But all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded
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