“I would not encourage anyone to show respect to evil men‚”(lines 830-831) says Haemon‚and he says it in a way not really to hurt Creon‚ but to tell him that he is becoming an evil man.Haemon’s words‚ actions‚ and ideas contrast with Creon’s character to the point where they end up having characteristics such as love‚ hate‚ and confusion to be a main part of Creon’s character.His love for his father turned into hate when he found out what he was trying to do to Antigone.He still had respect but he
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justice in a world such as mankind’s are absurd. Furthermore‚ by presenting cases where ‘justice’ is claimed to be enacted by a character or force (generally the gods)‚ the playwrights encourage speculation as to whether the punishments delivered are reasonable. In this essay I intend‚ through an analysis of the two works (focusing especially on the characters Creon and Antigone)‚ to emphasise how both playwrights address similar themes and concerns on the subject‚ yet arrive at different conclusions
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Prodis Ms. Randinelli Hrs. English 2 14 Sept. 2015 True Life: Creon is the Tragic Hero A tragic hero is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. Because the tragic hero simply cannot accept a diminished view of the self and because of some personality flaw‚ the hero fails in this epic struggle against fate (csus.edu). In "Antigone" written by the infamous Sophocles‚ the characters‚ Antigone and King Creon‚ can both be deemed as tragic heroes despite of their beliefs
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September 2014 Creon as a Tragic Hero “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart‚ and all they can do is stare blankly.” This quotation written by F. Scott Fitzgerald centuries after the famous Greek playwrights directly correlates to Aristotle’s characteristics of a tragic hero. In the Greek Tragedy‚ Antigone by Sophocles‚ the king‚ Creon‚ displays the qualities that fit Aristotle’s idea of the tragic hero. Creon possesses the fatal
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Maddy Poe Weber Block 4 30 January 2016 Creon The Tragic Hero Creon‚ a character from the Greek tragedy Antigone‚ is described as the tragic hero of the story due to the character’s flaws and the consequences that followed. Creon’s intentions are purely of nationalism for the land he rules‚ Thebbes. He forbids anyone to show respect to a violent betrayer‚ but in the process makes tragic flaws. Creon’s tragic mistakes can all be embodied by the one question he had asked his son Haemon‚
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Creon and Antigone both have a pretty tragic part in the play‚ “Antigone”‚ but who’s the more tragic character? I have an answer for you. With a little bit of evaluation‚ you’ll find that Antigone is indeed the more tragically doomed of the two‚ and here’s why. So just to start out‚ Antigone was indeed of noble birth as most tragic heroes are‚ but there’s something about her family tree that makes her a little bit different from the rest. Her father‚ Oedipus‚ also happens to be her brother. The
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Imani Ali Antigone Writing Assignment Noah Eber-Schmid 5 March 2017 Conflict 3: Creon and Haemon (pages 41-49) Creon‚ as the ruler of the land‚ is obligated to carry out social order. He has ordered that the body of Polynices should be left to rot because he was a traitor to the city. Antigone has disobeyed Creon’s orders by digging up her brother’s grave after his proper burial rites were forbidden. She has already buried her parents and brother Eteocles‚ who died fighting Polynices‚ and feels
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Burial at Thebes Antigone and Creon were the two main characters in the play Burial at Thebes. Even though they are antagonistic counterparts‚ their acting styles were much different. The actor who played Creon chose to modernize the way he spoke his lines. On the other hand‚ the actor who played Antigone stuck to a more Shakespearian reading; she was much more dramatic with her lines. It is interesting to have the two main characters use two different reading styles; it seemed to make the play
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compliant to him due to consternation. In Antigone‚ a play written by Sophocles‚ the actions of King Creon are closely akin to Henry VII of England. King Creon declares a decree that prohibits the burial of his nephew‚ Polynices‚ because Polynices had betrayed the city of Thebes and started a rebellion. Creon is enraged when his niece‚ Antigone‚ defies his decree and sentences her to death by entombment. Creon is tyrannical‚ selfish‚ and stubborn in the ways that he commits double blasphemy by letting Polynices
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considered either good or bad‚ depending on the situation; that flaw was bravery. King Creon is very close-minded‚ and that’s one of the many flaws the king has. Hubris‚ bravery and close-mindedness — the tragic flaws that Antigone‚ King Creon‚ and possibly other people‚ possess. Hubris; a definition of excessive pride‚ which is what Antigone and King Creon both shared. The difference between King Creon and
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