woman who is deprive to follow her believes by a king‚ fight through their story to stand up for themselves in a patriarchal society. Similarly‚ both women’s decision and actions starts their tragic path. Antigone is decided to bury her brother‚ Polynices‚ being aware that disobeying will lead to death. While talking to her sister‚ Ismene‚ she said "he has no right to keep from my own"60. Antigone believes that as the woman of the family is her responsibility to bury her brother and it’s the law of
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her citizens that lead to the eventual revelations of his true heritage and crime. In contrast to this‚ at the beginning of Antigone‚ Thebes has just been brought back from the brink of destruction‚ having defeated the army of Argos‚ lead by Polynices. The city in Antigone helps to retain dramatic tension of the play‚ as the two central characters‚ Creon and Antigone clash over the obligations to the city against an individual ’s obligations to their family‚ and in extension to divine law.
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should act through Antigone’s thoughts and actions. In this play‚ Antigone is punished for a crime she believed was shameless because she would rather follow the divine laws then man made laws disregarding any human feelings. She buried her brother‚ Polynices‚ knowing exactly the punishment she would endure which was death. In a tragic play such as this one‚ one can only assume that whatever downfall there is it would have to be death. In this case‚ Sophocles wanted to provoke the people by having his
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demands an iron will. Sophocles successfully presents Antigone as a self-righteous figure by careful diction. The first impression of Antigone under accusation is one of outright defiance. When Creon asks her whether she performed the burial right on Polynices‚ her response is concise and
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The Power of Choice Choices affect all of our lives. We are always faced with choices. What we do with those choices will determine how are lives will turn out‚ what destiny lies before us and even what will become of us. The choices we make are in our complete control. Whether we make choices during the heat of the moment or with an open mind there are going to be consequences that follow whether good or bad are can only be blamed on us. Sophocles’s Antigone portrays human emotions and consequences
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of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ in which Antigone‚ one of the daughters of former King of Thebes‚ Oedipus‚ defies Creon‚ the current King of Thebes‚ who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. She gives a stirring speech in which she tells him that she must obey her conscience rather than human law. She is not at all afraid of the death he
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Betrayal of Family Loyalty In the play Antigone‚ written by Greek playwright Sophocles‚ loyalty to family seems to be a recurring theme. We first see it when Antigone defies King Creon’s order to keep her brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied as a punishment for his betrayal of their country Thebes. We also see how Antigone’s sister‚ Ismene‚ accepts partial blame for the burial (even though she refused to actually do it) in an affectionate‚ loyal act. Creon is also family (their father’s brother)‚ but
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Antigone. In these stories‚ the prominent characters(s) seem to be isolated from others because of their beliefs and/or actions. Antigone is alone at the beginning of the play when her sister decides that she is not going to take part in the burial of Polynices. This isolation from her sister‚ the only family member she has alive‚ leads to Antigone’s development of “emotional individualism”. Lady Macbeth’s isolation is caused by her partaking and plotting a murder. Since most women of that time were seen
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The idea of justice is one of the strongest motivators for humankind to make decisions on how to live and whether or not to try and change how one conducts themselves. Creon‚ in the play Antigone by Sophocles‚ is immovable in his ideals and confident in his personal idea of true justice‚ maintaining pride and order in his city-state Thebes. He faces the dilemma of whether to prioritize the good of his city-state by ostracizing a traitor in the family‚ or to respectfully bury him as is the will of
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