Rules Obeyed In Sophocles Antigone

Static or Dynamic The play Antigone by Sophocles is about a girl named Antigone who tries to bury her brother after he had passed away. However the ruler of the kingdom, Creon, is stopping her from doing so. Antigone disobeys Creon by going against Creon and burying her brother. She also said to Creon that she doesn't have to listen to his rules and must do what is right. Creon didn't like that and threw her in a chamber. In the chambers Antigone ends up hanging herself. Because of this Creon’s

bring harm to others due to your lack of flexibility, you inevitably bring the harm upon yourself. In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, Antigone’s antagonist, Creon, is extremely inflexible because of his self-admiration and obstinacy that ultimately lead to extreme consequences. Antigone, Creon’s niece, disobeys King Creon’s law, to not bury her brother the “traitor”, Polynices. However, once Antigone buries her brother, Creon condemns her to death which eventually leads to his downfall. Creon’s conversion

the center of Sophocles’ Antigone we find not a tragic hero but a tragic collision. However, Antigone and Kreon have different positions on what’s right and what’s wrong. I agree with Hegel because this conflict is not between good and evil but between one-sided positions, each of which embodies some good. Antigone’s obligation to give her brother a suitable burial and King Kreon’s edict that enemies of the state should not be allowed burial are both justified in the play. Antigone believes the laws

is seen as detrimental to the rules that society imposes. In Antigone, the playwright, Sophocles, discusses how the choice to conform or not to conform can have an impact on one’s decisions. He utilizes the controversy surrounding the central conflict of the play, the death of Polyneices, to portray his characters’ attitudes towards conformity and nonconformity. Creon and Ismene are conformists because they believe in the absolute power of the law; whereas, Antigone is a nonconformist because she

truth behind political thought is founded primarily based on the rules of the law.Western European image of justice and order demonstrates the importance of natural equality that the rule of law adheres to. Thus creates this inconsistency ,that civil disobedience is not justified because of society 's accentuation on law and order. The understanding of law and civil disobedience illustrates itself in both readings of Sophocles ' Antigone and Plato 's Apology which suggests that they give both similar

Athenian Attitudes Toward the Authority of State Through the Eyes of Plato and Sophocles The first evidence of democracy, government in which the citizens had a say in the rulings, was discovered in Ancient Athens. However, the direct democratic system seemed so successful that it overshadowed the Athenian’s views towards the power of their government. Through close examination of the writings of Sophocles and Plato, one can discover the that the Athenian’s thoughts regarding the governing power

Antigone: The Rebel Freedom must come from within. Those who think they cannot break loose from the chains that restrain them, will remain powerless. Similarly, greek women had a limited amount of freedom. The rules that were set, were extreme and unfair. Rather than rebel, many women found themselves helpless and incapable of changing society. In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, it is made evident that Creon and Antigone both have opposing views on gender roles. Antigone is faced with a difficult

In Sophocles’ Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr. fight against the injustices that they faced. Antigone fights against the edict given by the stubborn and arrogant Kreon, while Martin Luther King Jr. is fighting against racial intolerance from the American people. Antigone uses religion to justify her actions and Martin Luther King Jr. uses logic and rationale, causing Martin Luther King Jr.’s methods to be more effective.

laws and Sophocles shows how this story reflects his religious belief.King Creon makes a law about if anyone tries to give Polyneices a proper funeral and if the people touch him they will be killed. If the King does not go through with the punishment, people will think he is weak and they will take advantage of him. The King niece Antigone was caught prepping her brother for burial and the King tries to help her get out of trouble but, she testified for committing the crime. He knows the rules of the

Chinua Achebe and Antigone by Sophocles, this idea is portrayed perfectly. The way that Achebe developed Ezinma throughout the novel, I believe, is what was used to show readers the softer and gentler side of Okonkwo. In conjunction with that, Sophocles used Ismene to be the more tame and obedient side of Antigone. Through the descriptions and ways that these two female characters affect the main characters in each of these novels, Ezinma from Things Fall Apart and Ismene from Antigone, it is apparent