Pride In Oedipus The King And Antigone

Pride is a quality that all people possess in one way or another. Some people take pride in their appearance, worldly possessions, or position in society. The story of Antigone written by Sophocles has two characters who have a tragic flaw of pride. I will show how Creon’s pride of power leads to his destruction, and how Antigone’s pride makes her an honorable character who should be treated as a hero.

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you 're looking down, you can 't see something that 's above you.”

“Think: all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” As a writer, Sophocles examined the interactions between truth and ignorance. He wrote plays in which the hero has a tragic flaw, many times that being the lack of wisdom caused by many different character flaws. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Antigone, pride and stubbornness obstruct the senses of Oedipus and Creon in a classic play about seeing the truth. Sophocles delves into the meaning of seeing, in a conventional way, and also in terms of insight.

On August 15th Japan surrendered, and on September 2nd, 1945 they signed the “Instrument of Surrender”. Hospitals were filled with patients who had not seemed sick before. People vomited, bled from their gums, and spots had begun to appear on their skin. Later Japanese doctors discovered that the people were dying from radiation that came from the atomic bomb. {look up: conspiracy theory} When considering using the atomic bombs, President Truman took into account the lowest possible cost for ending the war, he also wanted to end the war quickly. Truman once stated, “When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast.” After the Pearl Harbor invasion. The U.S. started with “Operation Downfall,” invading Kyushu, many casualties where estimated, but this war proved to be even more deadly than predicted. General MacArthur thought that dropping more bombs, and using air power by itself would protect American lives, while also bringing forth a quicker surrender from the Japanese. When I look at both sides of the 1945 Japan bombing I really tried to stay open about the different viewpoints. The fact that the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands crippled Japan was interesting to find. I felt that the Japanese did not want to compromise, and in some way bit the hands that fed them. It seems these allies had allot of power. The Japanese seemed to only

As the war continued and violence escalated, bombings caused enormous destruction and high death tolls, leading inevitably to the use of the atomic bombs. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki represented a culmination in the destructiveness of bombings, not a significant deviation from previous bombing practices. The alternatives to the use of the atomic bomb were likely to have caused equal suffering for the Japanese people. The use of the atomic bomb was no less moral than these horrific wartime practices. Harry Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan was justified by Japan’s refusal to immediately surrender. Harry Truman gave the Japanese time to surrender in order to preserve the existence of their people. They did not comply and as a result endured the consequences. (Walker) Yet an alternate perspective states that it was quite unnecessary to drop the Atomic Bombs in that Japan was practically an already defeated opponent. If a conditional surrender were to be issued by the United States to Japan in

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a bombing attack on the American naval base in Pearl Harbor. This attack on the U.S. brought America into World War II. One Japanese general commented “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” (Yamamoto) Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. created a much larger enemy than they intended. After the attack the U.S. embarked on a bloody and hard fought campaign through the pacific, which ultimately led to the Dropping of two atomic bombs and the surrender of Japan. Although many lives were lost the American decision to drop the bombs was justified because it ended the war quickly, saved american lives, and showed the world the power of the U.S. The Pacific War was a long and drawn out process that was moving very slowly for the United States, was struggling to pull off any major naval victory and from the mistakes made of the U.S. basically leaving the Japanese unattended while they were fighting the Germans in Europe. The American decision to drop the Bombs was justified because the U.S. wanted to end the war quickly and not to have a costly invasion of the Japanese Homeland as well as showing power to the world. Truman wanted to end the war as fast as he could because we had been in conflict for 4 years now and the American forces were very weary and tired of war, the U.S. dropped it for the other reason of

The U.S. didn't know the power and effect of the atomic bomb so they decided to drop it on a city filled with innocent people and children. “Hundreds of thousands of civilians with no democratic rights to oppose their militarist government, including women and children, were vaporized, turned into charred blobs of carbon, horrifically burned, buried in rubble, speared by flying debris, and saturated with radiation.” Innocent people didn’t have to die to have the war come to an end. The atomic bomb was not the right thing to do and it wasn't necessary at all. Some people may say the Japanese were given a fair warning and the Japanese could have surrendered right then and there.

The Japanese where not going to surrender and the Americans did not want to give up on this war either. America decided the only way to end the war and make the Japanese surrender, was to go to extreme lengths. A B-29 atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city, Hiroshima. This was the world’s first atomic bomb and the world was very surprised about the damage that it made. This explosion wiped out 90% of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands then died later from radiation exposure. This wakeup call still didn’t get the Japanese to surrender. So, America dropped another atomic bomb, this time in Nagasaki. This then ended in more people dying, roughly about 40,000 on top of the already killed 80,000. After these two attacks, Japanese Emperor announced that they had

“On August 6, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a Japanese industrial center, completely destroying the city and killing an estimated 70,000 people. Three days later, the U. S. dropped a second bomb, destroying the city of Nagasaki and killing another 39,000 Japanese citizens. Finally, on August 14, Japan surrendered.” (American Experience). The Japanese surrendered because they were a defeated nation. Japan's cities and industry had been destroyed. They could not sail any ships, could not fly any planes and had lost many territories to the United States and allies.

On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber successfully deployed and activated the first ever weaponized atom bomb over its target, Hiroshima. Upon detonation the bomb instantly killed around 70,000 Japanese also destroying ninety percent of the city. Three days later a second American B-29 bomber dropped another atom bomb over the city of Nagasaki killing an estimated 40,000 more people. The Japanese Emperor announced Japan’s unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was tragic, however, it was necessary to dissuade Japan from continuing war efforts and to accept unconditional surrender offered by the United States.

Firstly, due to Japanese culture, they were a force to be reckoned with, as they would never surrender, and fight to the last man. To illustrate their philosophies, when they bombed Pearl Harbour, they believed that it was divine favour when the clouds parted over the port. Moreover, in six months, Japan had conquered around 1,500,000 kilometres squared of land, 150,000,000 people and 500,000 prisoners of war. As a result, the U.S.A. had a very respectable reason to bomb Japan. Despite this, they offered the Japanese the Potsdam Declaration, which, in simply terms, said surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction.” Following Japanese culture, they did not admit defeat, and, it can be said, Japan brought it upon themselves. In addition, if American President Harry Truman had not used the bombs, and the war had continued, it is likely that more deaths would have occurred, and then Truman would have been criticised if all those other deaths could have been prevented with the used of an atomic bomb. This is because the causalities could have easily exceeded the toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the Americans planned to put into effect Operation Downfall, which involved the invasion of Japan by the U.S.A. Truman was advised by General Douglas MacArthur and other military commanders that the assault would result in one

In every person’s life, pride can play a major, beneficial role. When used humbly, it can help one develop a stronger self image and achieve more. In contrast, hubris, exaggerated pride or self-confidence, can lead to danger and havoc. Being a common theme in Greek tragedy, it’s found in Sophocles’ plays: Oedipus the King and Antigone. In these plays, several characters display hubris that ultimately lead to their downfall and destruction, and even deaths of their loved ones.

Oedipus the King is perhaps one of the most famous and influential of Sophocles' plays. It is a tragic play which focuses on the discovery by Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. On the surface of this drama there is, without a doubt, a tone of disillusionment.

August 15, 1945, Japan announces its surrender to the Allies almost one week after being hit with two atomic bombs. On August 6, 1945 during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world 's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city Hiroshima, wiping out 90 percent of the city and killing 80,000 people immediately. Three days later a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on the Japanese city Nagasaki, killing around 40,000 people. (The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) The Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings were necessary because it played a vital role in Japan’s surrender to the Allies by inflicting severe damage and fear to Japan.

On August 6th, 1945 sixty thousand people instantly disintegrated within a five-mile radius blast that erupted over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later an even stronger blast was felt over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Though thousands died, the technologic improvement from the original bomb did not go unnoticed. Both “Little boy” and “Fat man” were successful in collapsing the Japanese will to fight and on August 15th Japan surrendered to the United States. Without the introduction of the atomic bomb, no one can say for sure how long the war would have raged on for. As noted in the Battle of Midway the shortage of experienced pilots hindered Japan but advanced their tactics as well. Rather than training proficient pilots, the Japanese took a kamikaze approach to aerial combat and rammed fighter planes into the sides of US ships. At this point, the Japanese were literally willing to die for their country even if it meant complete suicide. The success of the Manhattan Project did