Similarities Between Antigone And Othello

Sophocles’ play Antigone continues the calamitous story of the Theban royal family, recounting the conflict between Creon’s authority as king and Antigone’s sense of justice. While many of the events of the play are certainly tragic, whether or not Antigone and its characters should be considered tragic is less definite. Aristotle’s theory of a tragic hero calls for a basically good character who experiences a fall due to some flaw or error, experiencing a transformative realization and catharsis as a result. When considered together, the traits of both Antigone and Creon come together to fulfill all of the requirements for the play to be a tragedy, but neither character can be considered an Aristotelian tragic hero standing alone.

The original play of Antigone was written 1000s of years ago but, this movie was made in the 1940s during the second world war. The French Government was controlled by Nazis, when showed the play, both the french resistance and the Nazi party loved it. When one analyzes the characters to this situation you find that Creon relates to the Nazi party and Antigone is like the French rebels. Antigone is like the rebels because she is going against the wishes of Creon and wants to give her brother a proper burial and Creon is like the Nazi party because it was his decision to make sure that his nephew got the punishment he deserved even if it meant going against his family values.

Most readers are aware of the many famous deaths or acts of death within the Shakespearean plays. And when the main characters die in Shakespeare’s plays, indeed, the readers would categorize the play as a tragedy. The problem with any tragedy definition is that most tragic plays do not define the tragedy conditions explained or outlined by Aristotle. According to Telford (1961), a tragedy is a literary

There is no friendship as strong as between sisters. Whether it is a best memory, sad moment, or a first time, sisters go through it all together. Most movies and books have tended to show sisters to be quite similar. The immortal story Cinderella features the stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella Tremaine, who shared the same malicious mindset against Cinderella. Similarly, a recent movie, Frozen shows the compassion Anna and Elsa possessed for each other However, in Sophocles's Antigone, Antigone and her sister, Ismene are far from friends. Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian who along with his other 120 plays, wrote the three plays Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone was the second edition that starts from where

Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The

How is the theme of suffering portrayed in ‘Othello’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’?

The tragedies of Antigone and Othello were written with great depth and are structured in such a way that both characters are victims, in spite of their crimes. Antigone and Othello are tragedy plays created by using many techniques to create the feelings of fear and pity. There are differences and similarities in characters, action, and themes between Antigone and Othello.

The novels, Antigone and The Odyssey, both illustrate different perspectives in which the characters love their respective family members. Love is experienced and represented in different ways between the characters of each novel. Furthermore, the characters’ differing personalities modulate their desires. In Antigone, Antigone, Kreon, and Ismene all have distinct views on how their late traitor, Polyneikes, should be buried. Antigone loves her dead brother, Polyneikes, and desires to bury him. On the contrary, Kreon and Ismene believe in following the law over honoring their family. In the Odyssey, the main characters utilize their cunning to determine whether they should place duty or desire first. Odysseus and his close family members employ their intelligence in determining whether they should

Many of Aristotle’s tragedies had different meanings and outcomes for each one. In both of the stories of the Antigone and Medea, both novels show multiple tragedies from the Aristotle’s different tragedies. In the Sophocles' story Antigone, it certainly has the trademark Aristotle characterizes as a consistent character. Aristotle affirms in his Poetics that one part of an elegantly composed disaster is that it must have a reliable hero. Antigone is extremely solid willed. She accepts wholeheartedly in being faithful to her related, as we find in her lines tended to Ismene. She also trusts that the laws of the divine beings are higher than the laws of man. For example, Creon's laws. Particularly Antigone attest her view that the gods

There is no denying that Shakespeare is a definitive playwright. He has presented us with classic works that have set the precedent for drama and the theatre. Among Shakespeare’s more notable plays are his tragedies. In the tragedy his protagonists are often given flaws in their character and hence, are suitably named tragic heroes. The downfall of these protagonists is often a result of their own character flaws and unfortunately, they suffer a doomed and unhappy ending. While the tragic hero is flawed they must also be honorable and worthy of the audience’s understanding and sympathy. On a quest for righteousness the tragic hero often goes through immense suffering which is why the audience can feel bad for him. For the most

John F. Kennedy once said “A man must do what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures...and that is the basis of human 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 the consequences she still attempts to bury Polyneices. Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan are two psychologists that created the Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development and Gilligan’s Ethics of Care Theory scales which show where one’s morality may rank depending on one’s actions. Even though Creon and Antigone started with the same circumstances and conditions, their morality causes them to stand on different levels and stages on Lawrence Kohlberg’s and Carol Gilligan’s scales and as well as on other Moral scales.

No matter how civilized a culture may be, the human race continues to have stories of social and political unrest. Why exactly is that? Over time, people have been taught to accept the rules given to them by their governing bodies only to see those same rules slowly disappear through steady opposition. Hence, the world saw a new era of democracy unfold. Nonetheless, whether a society is democratic or autocratic, people still experience social cataclysms.

Many of Shakespeare’s plays draw from classical Greek themes, plot and metaphors. The tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides and Homer have themes like royal murders, assassinations by near relatives, the supernatural, ghostly visits, and vengeful spirits of the dead- themes which reappear in Shakespeare’s tragedies with a difference.

Many of Shakespeare’s plays draw from classical Greek themes, plot and metaphors. The tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides and Homer have themes like royal murders, assassinations by near relatives, the supernatural, ghostly visits, and vengeful spirits of the dead- themes which reappear in Shakespeare’s tragedies with a difference.

Medea and Antigone are very determined people who will get what they want no matter what. In the play, Antigone defies the king and buries her brother at night. She says “You may do what you like since apparently the law of gods mean nothing to you” to Ismene which clearly states that she is doing it for spiritual reasons. For if she does not, Polyneices will not be accepted into heaven. Medea allows her sons to be killed and purposely kills Creon’s daughter to spite her husband. She is driven by her desire for revenge and her heart has been poisoned by the betrayal from Jason. Love and infatuation also plays a big role in both stories. Antigone’s love for her brother caused her to bury him whereas Medea killed people because of her infatuation