Critical Lens Essay On Antigone

Sophocles, a great tragedian, was the one who gave Greek tragedies their traditional form. An important part of traditional Greek tragedies is the presence of a tragic hero. All tragic heroes should have the characteristics of rank, a tragic flaw, a downfall, and a recognition of mistakes. The seemingly tragic hero is Antigone. She wants to bury her brother Polyneices even though this would be going against Creon, who is her uncle and the king. When Antigone buries Polyneices Creon sentences her to death because of it. In Antigone by Sophocles the tragic hero is not Antigone because she only meets the characteristic of a tragic flaw, hers being pride, but doesn 't meet the other three characteristics of a

and set of values. She dies with pride and no regret for she died because she acted doing what

Love affects what people choose to do weather it is right or wrong. “You’re going to have to make a choose, the girl said carl or us ” (Carver 785). In this example from “Everything Stuck to Him”the boy is faced with his family

It takes a lot of courage to stand up and defend an action or idea that is forbidden by society. This is what Antigone does in Sophocles' story Antigone. She clearly disobeys King Creon's order that no person should bury Antigone's brother, Polynices, which is punishable by penalty of death. In this case, though, is Antigone's decision the correct one? Her actions affect many of her other countrymen negatively; they cause problems within the royal family, disagreement among the people and directly relate to the death of three people including her own.

Women often are put in positions that often create turmoil within themselves. Women tend to make decisions based more on emotion and values as opposed to what is dictated by governing laws and rulers. By choosing to do what is “right in their heart” women often suffer great consequences such as persecution, abuse, exile and even death.

In Antigone one of The Three Theban Plays, Antigone creates a plan to bury her late brother. This plan involves taking extreme risks in order to achieve this illegal act. Whether or not this act should be allowed is widely debated between characters. The viewpoints on the matter from characters Antigone, Ismene, Creon, and The Chorus provide detailed explanations on each of their opinions about burial and loyalty. Going against the written rules, Antigone (sister of Ismene) believes her late brother should receive a proper burial.

The debate over who is the tragic hero in Antigone is unanswered. The belief that Antigone is the hero is a tough one. Antigone is widely thought of as the tragic hero of the play bearing her name. She would seem to fit the part in light of the fact that she dies for doing what she believes is right. She buries her brother without worrying what might happen to her. Unlike Antigone, Ismene says “And break the law, our death will be more shameful even then theirs” (pg.5 line 60).

The Hero Antigone Antigone is the name of the tragedy by Sophocles and it is also the name of the protagonist of the tragedy. Antigone is the main character of the tragedy and also the hero of it. Heroes come in many shapes or forms. In many mythology, most heroes that are known and talked about are males such as Herakles or Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, and Jason.

Sophocles once said, that there is one word that frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love. Love is perceived in many ways, by different people. In the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, you see the love within family. You see it between mother and son, between father and son, between siblings, and you see the love between a man and women and how this element of love changes the actions and mindsets of these characters. Love is a driving force and can make people do abnormal things, and is seen between brother and sister, mother and son, and with a man and women.

Antigone is a play about a woman who disobeyed the King's order to not bury her brother. The play was written by the famous Greek tragedian, Sophocles, in 441 B.C. The story took place in the city of Thebes and the time period is not mentioned. The main characters introduced in the play are of Antigone, Ismene, Creon, and Haemon. The primary focus was centered on Antigone and the consequences she faces after breaking the King's orders.

   Antigone, Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy, presents tragic flaw as the cause of the destruction of Creon, the king of Thebes. This essay examines that flaw and the critical perspective on it.

Feminism is defined as the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. Challenging the systemic inequalities women face on a daily basis is the goal of feminism. Antigone, a play by Sophocles, is a tragedy written in the year 441 BC or possibly prior to that. It is the third of the three Theban plays to have been produced. These plays followed the fall of the great king, Oedipus, and later the tragedies that his children suffered. Susan Glaspell’s trifles was ahead of its time “because it is one of the first examples of American feminist drama” (Web). It is one of the most anthologized plays because it is a prominent play, with regards to American feminist drama. This one-act play reaches a climax when two farmwives challenge a male-dominated society by concealing evidence that would have caused another farmwife, who strangled to death

Throughout time society has developed a system from which humans are able to define good and bad, Ethics. Although Ethical norms have been adapted throughout the passing of time, its most intrinsic values have prevailed, enabling individuals to agree on standards of what good and bad are built on their moral standards. Morals are what give the individual the capacity to distinguish good from bad. In the ancient Greece morals were indeed the individuals perception of good, and bad however, these perceptions were greatly abided and driven by the divine laws imposed by the gods. In Antigone, a tragedy written by Sophocles, we see the how the main character defies the kings rules and stands for her own perception of what she believes is the rightful thing to do .We are able to able to see the decision chosen by the two main characters, Creon and Antigone are the ones to define and condemn their faith and the one of those who live around them. In Bernard Knox’s Introduction poet T. S. Eliot states, “Antigone did the right thing for the wrong reason”(pg53). I believe that Antigone by deciding to mourn for her dead brother does indeed the right things but for the wrongs reasons. Through her actions she evidently follows the ethical norms imposed by the Greek divine laws, but it is her moral judgment the one to ambiguously expose her true reasons, the fulfillment of an unalloyed lust, creating a rupture beyond the scopes of rationality by incarnating the simple desire of taking upon

The female stilled as the male approached her. She’d been listening intently to his words so far, trying to learn all she could. “Got it, no more than is needed.” It was strange to her to think they needed to trap. Annette, her younger sister, had always been reading novels that seemed to express how vicious and relentless werewolves were. They’d hunt their prey under the dark sky, dragging them from their homes into the pits of darkness. The mere thought was rather amusing, considering the truth of the situation. Isobel watched as Cross began to dig into the meat; it didn’t look as if it was even remotely cooked. Maybe he was just too hungry. It made her somewhat jealous; she wished to be able to do the same, her body was telling her to eat, to feed the desperate hunger within herself, but something was stopping her. “Well, at least it’ll do the trick then.” She murmured, referring to the food she currently held up on the stick. Isobel was growing impatient with the flames. She didn’t wish to burn it but

The play Antigone is the last of a tragic trilogy of Sophocles works, the original order was Oedipus Rex, then Oedipus at Colonus and then Antione. Antigone and Ismene are about the last of Oedipus children, Antigone wishes to give her brother Polyneices a proper funeral, but because he was dammed a traitor by Creon, he states that the harshest punishment would be to let the animals and birds eat at their corpse. Antigone and her sister are caught by the Chorus and temporarily imprisoned due to Antigone having no remorse for giving her brother a proper funeral. Later, Creon wishes to free Antigone due to fear of loss of popularity with the people and gods, only when one member of the chorus returns to tell Creon that Antigone hanged herself.