Antigone: To Bury or Not to Bury‚ That ’s the Dying Question "To live or not to live‚ that is the question". In Sophocles ’ Antigone‚ Antigone buries her brother Polyneices and is told she will die because of it. Did she have a good intention in her actions? After reading this paper a person can see if they think Antigone was wrong in burying him‚ acting upon instinct‚ acting nobly‚ acting motherly towards her brother‚ or if she really wanted to bury him. In the book entitled Sophocles
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GREEK VOCABULARY USED IN THE PLAY ANTIGONE. 1. grievous causing or marked by grief or anguish EXAMPLE SENTENCE: To me‚ Antigone‚ no word of friends Has come‚ or glad or grievous‚ since we twain Were reft of our two brethren in one day By double fratricide; 2. lament a cry of sorrow and grief EXAMPLE SENTENCE: No man may bury him or make lament— 3. promulgate put a law into effect by formal declaration NOTES: "Mandate" and "edict" are synonyms for a law that King Creon
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Sophocles’s play‚ Antigone. Rebelling against his gods and people‚ Creon‚ who took the throne after his nephews died in their own civil war‚ fights for total control. Meanwhile‚ Antigone defies the state of Thebes so as “not [to] prove disloyal” to the oldest Greek laws (Sophocles 3). These conflicting ideologies result in tragedy. Violating religious laws by disallowing the burial of Polynices‚ Creon dismissed religious rites and betrayed his family ties. To counteract his crimes‚ Antigone symbolically
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been degrading‚ belittling‚ and simply unjust. In Antigone and Things Fall Apart‚ a Greek play by Sophocles and a novel by Chinua Achebe‚ respectively‚ the discussion of women in their individual societies goes to show the fact that they have been and continue to be consistently oppressed‚ despite the significant time and culture difference. Little progression towards equality is made within or between the two. The role of women in both Antigone and Things Fall Apart are different‚ yet circle back
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ANTIGONE 3 January 2013 Moral Law vs. Political Law The theme of Antigone is the struggle between political law and moral law; the difference of following the law because it is the law and following one’s own morals because you feel it is what is right. The characters in Antigone face this struggle when confronted with Creon’s refusal of a burial for Antigone’s brother Polynices. The ancient Greeks believed that without proper burial‚ entrance into the afterlife was forbidden. It is through
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Audacious Antigone: An Unlikely Hero Countless forms of storytelling make us question what a hero is. Films‚ video games‚ novels‚ and other modes of writing‚ let us answer for ourselves; every hero in every story is varied and can make us realize the answers lie within a gray area. Often heroes are quintessential saviors‚ while in other instances they take the form of the ever popular antihero with questionable motivations. Those motivations greatly inform and alter the hero’s narrative. Infamous
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In the play Antigone there are many references that link to the oppression of women. Creon made many convictions insulting womenkind. His convictions seemed true to a large population of men. I believe the majority of men‚ in the ancient Greek times believed in the undeniable domination of women. The start of the Greeks began around 2000 B.C. with the Mycenaeans. They inhabited the Greek peninsula. (Perry 40) “If we transgress . . . we” (Beatty 61) Ismene claimed it
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Antigone is basically the beginning and the end of the playwright. From the prologue to the final scene‚ the play hinges on her acts of defiance or heroism. In the beginning of the play‚ Antigone is basically the ugly sister in regards to Ismene. Antigone is kind of grossly described to be honest. She’s small‚ scrawny‚ and practically a spoiled little girl. Antigone makes choices for herself without any real regards to advice or others opinion. So all in all I would say she makes pretty unjust
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‘Antigone’ Paper 2 Essay (e). Evil not only fascinates people in general‚ but writers as well. In what ways and with what effect has “evil” been treated in Antigone? In the play of ‘Antigone’‚ evil appears in many forms. There is the soldier who is a traitor to his nation; the sister trying to prove her love for her family yet ends up breaking the law; the king who so eagerly tries to stop rule-breakers yet he himself neglects his flesh and blood. Here the difference of the two works is seen:
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‘How would you perform the role of either Creon or Antigone in their scene of confrontation after the Soldier has brought her before the King’ The desired audience response of this scene is to make the audience feel uncomfortable and on the edges of their seats‚ as the way that Antigone is defying Creon would not have been acceptable in that time‚ and the audience will not know how Creon is going to act. On entry‚ Antigone will be held on both arms by soldiers‚ but she will not struggle. She will
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