Antigone’s Room. She sits with her head bowed. Enter Creon. Creon: Antigone. You are the daughter of a traitor - Oedipus. While you wait upon your judgment to be dealt‚ please tell me. Tell me why you have done what cannot be undone and damned yourself to this fate. Antigone: I do not feel damned. I do not lie here and claim my actions as regrets for they were of my own will. I believe that I have done what is right for my family and to the gods. I have stood up and apart from those that condemn
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she would inevitably face whereas her father chooses to do otherwise. The king’s choice to follow his political obligation is illustrated by his orders to a herald to forbid any funeral rites or burial to the corpse of Antigone’s second brother- Polynices‚ when he says "Let him lie unwept‚ unburied‚ a toothsome morsel for the birds of heaven‚ and whoso touches him shall perish by the cruel death of stoning." This is in contrast to the actions taken by Antigone. Her decision to exhibit loyalty towards
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be wearing messy clothes to show he is a worker. All of these features show that the sentry is at the ‘bottom’ of the hierarchy and this is shown through his thin look. When the sentry first enters to tell Creon what has happened to the body of Polynices it is obvious
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September 11‚ 2001‚ two planes crash into the World Trade Center‚ people diving out windows to their deaths‚ a plane crashes into the Pentagon‚ hijackers overtaken by passengers and crash the plane into a field in Pennsylvania. December 2003‚ mass graves uncovered in Iraq‚ compliments of Saddam Husayn. May‚ 2004‚ a web page shows terrorists cutting off the head of Nick Berg. August 2004‚ over 350 children are executed by terrorists in a school in Russia. Democracy is being threatened by enigmatic
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Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men. Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone conveys the importance of morality over the rulings of the state through its setting of Ancient Thebes and Antigone’s moral conflict with King Creon’s law. Creon‚ orders the body of Polynices not to be buried since Creon considered him a traitor. However‚ Antigone ignores Creon’s edict and properly buries her brother‚ giving him the eternal peace she believes he deserves. Antigone’s view that Creon’s law is unjust and that the laws of
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their families and do not want any harm to come to them‚ embodying the ancient Greek value of familial loyalty. However‚ in the end‚ their fates end up harming their families more. If it weren’t for Antigone‚ none of the tragic deaths except for Polynices would have
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One of the most devastating problems for the Classical Greeks was the women’s issue. Women in Classical Greece were not citizens‚ held no property‚ and indeed were not even allowed out of the house except under guard. Their status differed from that of the slaves of Greece only in name. This alone‚ however was not a problem -- the problem was that the Greeks knew‚ in their hearts‚ that this was wrong. Indeed‚ their playwrights harangued them about it from the stage of Athens continually. All of the
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They began immediately‚ Creon lambasting Antigone over her love for her brother Polynices‚ one that he claimed was not shared with anyone else in the city and how it was shameful to her reputation (525). Here‚ however‚ is where I stepped in. I asked Creon to consider my opinion‚ and he grudgingly agreed‚ at which point I set upon him
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left the kingdom in a self imposed exile. Antigone and her sister‚ Ismene have been left under the care of her uncle‚ Creon who is now king. In his first official decree‚ Creon decides that for reasons he sees fit‚ the body of Antigone’s brother Polynices should not be buried but left out‚ unattended to‚ for
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disobedience” and is about the controversies between gender‚ power‚ age‚ religion‚ beliefs‚ and laws. The script begins with Antigone asking Ismene to bury their brother because Creon‚ their uncle passed down a decree saying no one is allowed to bury Polynices because he betrayed his country can killed his own brother. Antigone chose to disobey the law and was sentenced to death. Every one advised Creon to rethink his decision‚ but he didn’t listen until the end when everything was too late. There was
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