“I did not think anything which you proclaimed strong enough to let a mortal override the gods and their unwritten and unchanging laws‚” (lines 510-513) proclaims Antigone‚ once again asserting her opinion on whose laws she is justified to follow. Antigone’s persona contrasts with Creon’s character ultimately due to their conflicting motivations about which laws should be followed: the word of the gods‚ or the laws of man.These conflicting motivations the characteristics of unreasonableness‚ anger
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In Antigone‚ Antigone buried her brother‚ Polyneices‚ against Creon’s law. Creon warned the city of Thebes that if anyone were to bury Polyneices‚ a stoning would take place as a punishment in front of the public. Antigone‚ Polyneices’ sister‚ went to her sister asking for her help in burying her brother and when she refused to help‚ Antigone went ahead and buried Polyneices herself. Once Creon found out what Antigone had done‚ he sent her away to the middle of the woods in a closed tomb where she
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The personalities of the two sisters; Antigone and Ismene‚ are as different from one another as tempered steel is from a ball of cotton. One is hard and resistant; the other: pliable‚ absorbing and soft. Antigone would have been a strong‚ successful 90’s type woman with her liberated and strong attitude towards her femininity‚ while Ismene seems to be a more dependent 1950’s style woman. Antigone acts as a free spirit‚ a defiant individual‚ while Ismene is content to recognize her own limitations
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against each other. The characters in Antigone are forced to follow their unchangeable fate that the gods had chose for them; the characters lives are then dictated by fate and not their free will. One of the main characters‚ Antigone‚ had willingly chose go against the law of the king‚ Creon‚ to bury her brother who was seen as traitor. Even though Antigone had chose to defy Creon’s law‚ her fate of how she was punished would be appointed by the gods. Antigone eventually
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people throughout history have perished or suffered for their beliefs or their religion. The story of‚ Antigone‚ includes many examples of martyrs and the ways they suffer for their beliefs. Although they do not have the same actions‚ Creon and Antigone share the same motive of restoring respect to their despised‚ incestual family through different ways. Some examples are such as how Antigone tries through gaining honor as the last great leader of her kin and how Creon attempts by using power as
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2012 Combat of Passion and Reason Wandile Sihle Nzimakwe 211546206 PHIL203: Ways of Reasoning Wandile Sihle Nzimakwe: 211546206 2012 Combat of Passion and Reason Wandile Sihle Nzimakwe 211546206 PHIL203: Ways of Reasoning Introduction The view that reason is the superior principle and it causes an action is a fallacy. Having said this‚ Reason alone can never cause action. What really causes an action is a Passion to act according to what you desire to do. Reason however can be a passion’s
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In Sophocles Antigone‚ the title character’s gender has profound effects on the meaning of her actions. Creon himself says that the need to defeat her is all the more pressing because since she is a woman her rebellion upsets gender roles and hierarchy. By refusing to be passive‚ she overturns one of the fundamental rules of her culture. Women were subjugated and supposed to be silent spectators to the world around them as men’s‚ such as Creon’s‚ search for power fuels there desire to put women down
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Discovers his fate from his actions * Usually a leader of men-ex: King * Their fate affects the nation or a large number of people * Their suffering is not senseless * Most tragic hero’s are men‚ with a could examples of Antigone and Cleopatra * Athenian Tragedy * Oldest tragedy existing * Emerged during 6th century BC * Reached its peak as dramatic form in the 5th century * When &Where * Open air theatres * Could usually hold
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Child Emotions vs. Adult Emotions By Andrea Lee All appearances said that Catherine Linton was as grown up as she could be‚ she was married and quite past the age when one is considered an adult. But‚ if one would look just a little farther‚ they could see that in all her rebelliousness she is maintaining a carefully constructed façade‚ created to look adult while she spends hours of time dreaming about the childhood that she wished would last forever. When we first see Catherine enter Nelly’s
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Reasons vs. Causes • Reasons tell us why we ought to believe (do) something. Causes tell us why we in fact do believe (do something). • Reasons are normative‚ causes are factual. • Reasons justify‚ causes explain. (Caution: the terms here are imprecise‚ and we use terms such as ‘explanation’ or ‘reason’ in different ways than just outlined.) Example. Suppose I say: “I believe that there are no triangles.” You say “Why do you believe that?” You can be either asking for the cause of my belief
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