Antigone Reflection

Greenfield English 12 November 2, 2017 Reflection on Themes of Antigone Standing up against an authoritative figure that is bigger than most of society takes pride. Pride can be a good thing to have, but only a certain amount of it. Too much pride could make someone cocky and blind them of the honorable thing to do. In the story Antigone by Sophocles women do not have pride for them self because of the dominant rule of men. The role of women takes a turn when Antigone shows her pride when going against

the combination of these aspects, and work together to develop a play that properly conveys its story to the audience. Our production of Antigone was a tremendous success due to excellent actors, well-written script, and thoughtful design. Through the communal effort of everyone in the class, we were able to develop a serious and impactful rendition of Antigone. Each of us provided a different contribution to creating this play, and it was our collaboration that led to the success of the play.

students hate having to find and cite sources for their writing, even though not citing your sources is conducting plagiarism. The same principles usually apply to me as well, except during this course I found it almost enjoyable to find sources for my Antigone essay. When I started looking for sources to use for my essay it sort of became like a scavenger hunt for me trying to find sources that could either support or oppose my ideas. It is important to have an opposition in papers as well so that your

morality”. But when someone’s ambition is to do something wrong, how does their actions reflect on their morality? In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone and King Creon’s decisions and choices reflect on their consequences and morality. One of the main characters in play, King Creon, makes some awful decisions that make him reflect on his own moral values. Another character, Antigone has a compulsive motive to bury her brother, Polynices, but she isn’t allowed to transgress the king’s command and despite

in your character traits led to your ultimate downfall? The play Antigone, written by Sophocles, covers the story of a young girl named Antigone. She wishes to bury her brother Polyneices, who died in battle. However, King Creon refuses to allow Polyneices proper burial because of the treason he feels Polyneices had committed, even though appropriate burial rites were a sacred law among the ancient Greeks. Creon then locks up Antigone for her attempt to bury her brother. King Creon is therefore a tragic

the play I am summarizing is called Antigone by Sophocles, the genre of this play is Greek tragic, it comes after two other plays where as in the first one Oedipus was supposed to end up being the king so he killed his father and wanted marry the mother. Where as in the second one its just stories of his kids and their meetings with Theseus, the King of Athens. Antigone main properties of a Greek tragedy play would have to be the characters and the plot. Antigone ends up sacrificing herself just to

are to some extent reflections of each other in different points of time, they are at the same time very different from each other. I will show this by first briefly explaining the background of each of these three figures. Secondly, I will explain the characteristics that these figures displayed. I will then go on to compare and contrast each of these figures with each other. Ismene, a character from Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, is the sister of the play’s main protagonist Antigone. Ismene is sought

his work is a reflection of a society and major events happening at the time. Excessive power in the government causes discord in citizen because people are afraid of retaliations from the government. The play Antigone is part of The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles. The Theban Plays are about the king and queen of Thebes and their family. The last sequel Antigone is about the daughter of Oedipus, who was the son of King Lalos and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. The last play picks up when Antigone, one of Oedipus

lines of Antigone, the thing that I found to be the most confusing, yet also tragic to an extent, is specifically Ismene’s perspective towards her relationship with Antigone. The first encounter between the two centers around Antigone asking Ismene if she wants to join in bury their dishonored brother’s (Polyneices) corpse, an action that absolutely rejects the rule of Creon. In responding with a refusal to take part in this, Ismene conveys an interesting sense of dependence on Antigone with phrases

It seems to be far stretching to contrast Antigone as a play reflecting tragic events in 441BCE with the Basilica that started with a chapel built in 1658. However, both arts showed how religious beliefs shape people’s lives and both are a reflection of how humans explained both tragic and joyous events. More significantly, how art forms (play and architecture) depict historical and social events. The most important difference between the play and the basilica is that they present a different idea