Similarities Between Antigone And Whale Rider

Although they had a great advantage, they were both still willing to die for what they believed in. In Antigone, Antigone is talking to her sister about what she feels she should do and says, “But I will bury him: and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy...” (774) Antigone is telling her sister that although she will most likely be killed as a result of doing what she feels is right, she is willing to take the chance and do it anyways. Pai does something very similar when she says, “I wasn't scared to die.” (45) Pai was riding the largest whale back into the water in order to save it and ends up being pulled

Have you ever felt like you knew the honorable thing to do, but after doing it, you find that it just made things worse? In Sophocles’s play Antigone, both Antigone and Creon are great examples of a tragic hero who does exactly that. Both have similar weaknesses that lead to their own destruction. However, I believe that the best example of this role is Creon. He made a law to prevent Polyneices from having a burial because of his disloyalty to Thebes; consequently, this decree goes against the laws of the gods. This decision reveals Creon’s hamartia to be that he is too stubborn and narrow-minded for his own good. Moreover, due to this tragic flaw in his personality, he plants the seed that leads to his own downfall.

In both these stories, the authors portray two very different yet alike women who have trouble accepting their fate and are trying to reject the life of women of their class. Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard are very alike because they dream of something they do not have, then their dreams come true, but destiny plays a fatal role in both stories, and ladies lose everything they had. In both stories, ladies have caring husbands, whom they do not appreciate .Unfortunately, the endings of

Either way, Antigone and Oedipus’ personalities make them what they are, tragic heroes, as well make them renowned for their story since they were first on the stage to now. Sharing the characteristic of pride and stubbornness, yet being completely different when it come to insight and ignorance, also compassion and being self-absorbed, Antigone and Oedipus are rather alike. Thought this might not seem important, whether make believe character are similar and different, but nearly everything in pop culture, from movies to plays are derived from works of fiction from the past. Tragic heroes exist everywhere even in modern culture for example Tiger Woods, O.J. Simpson, Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson, etc. All people of power once loved by many but due to mistakes they losted fame, fortune, and even love; all with a tragic downfall; and all with a tragic flaw, that got them in the situation they are in or was in. All very similar yet different to the tragic heroes of the past, Antigone and

First of all, Antigone and Pai both audaciously committed an offense by ignoring their superiors. Antigone tried to bury her brother and Pai sat down at the front of the “class”. Pai and Antigone did not concoct any type of hearsay or false information about their superiors. However, Pai continued to disobey her grandfather behind his back by learning the ways of the chief, even though he had forbidden her from doing so. Antigone had admitted to the deed and basically turned herself into authorities. Pai did not let her grandfather know that she was defying him; he saw Pai using techniques taught in his class. All the same, Pai and Antigone took similar action in disobeying a respected figure, but their actions after the initial misdeed were rather

Armine Kotin Mortimer in their essay makes this claim, “We see each in turn through the somewhat tainted view of the other” (Mortimer 189). I agree with this. The two women definitely don’t see each other as similar in any way. Mortimer says that the women both see each other as if they themselves as better (Mortimer 189). They are different from each other, but both think lowly other the other.

The notorious Ulysses and Creon (from Antigone) have a few prominent similarities, as well as notable differences. For instance, Ulysses and Creon both, at one point, realize that their regime over the civilians is no longer needed, for they're not for running it or won’t be able to run it effectively. Their reasons for recognizing their incompetence differ, making them two seemingly opposite characters. However, even with their vast differences, they prove similar because they convey the themes that even the smallest shortcomings in people can negatively affect those around them and sometimes what a person wants to do trumps what they should do.

Antigone did not trust anyone and Caesar trusted his friends before they killed him. One major similarity is that Antigone and Julius Caesar both fight for what they believe in. Antigone risked her life so her brother can have a proper burial. Caesar was trying to do what he thought was going to make his country stronger and his friend killed him because he thought he was doing the wrong thing. Antigone knew if she tried to bury her brother then she would be killed,

We have a lot in common. We both have a lot of the same likes and interests. We always want what is best for everyone, and to make them feel like they mean something. Antigone wants to give her brother the proper burial, if my brother died I would also want to. It is a loyal and respectful thing to do.

Throughout many pays and novels, women have had important roles of helping form the main characters, in the way they think, move or change the story. Women have always been subordinate to men all through history, but in plays, novels, short stories, etc, they have been given large enforcing roles, showing the power within women. William Shakespeare and Sophocles use guilt, pride, and influence to demonstrate the importance of the women’s role to support the main characters in both the plays of Macbeth and Antigone.

Antigone by Sophocles and Medea by Euripides are two plays whose main characters are their namesakes. Antigone is a play based on Antigone’s response to the death of her brothers and Medea is a play based on Medea’s response to her husband Jason leaving her to marry the daughter of a king. Both Antigone and Medea are women fighting against oppression by directly disobeying the law. However, they use different tactics in their battles, and they have different reasons for fighting. In the end, both make their point by bringing down the royal households. These women effectively fight oppression in their own ways.

Discuss the differences between Antigone and Ismene in their views of women in society. How does each sister’s view shape the choices she makes in the play? How consistent is each, in her view?

Even though Antigone has familial love toward her brother, she expresses sympathy toward him. Antigone does this by telling her sister that Creon “Promotes one of them and shames the other” by denying his burial rights (22). In this part of her speech, Antigone chooses her words carefully to describe the situation to her sister and express the sympathy she has for Polyneices, especially when she uses the phrase “shames the other” and “miserable corpse” (22-26). Antigone is sympathetic of her brother Polyneices because he is not given a proper burial and is left to the “vultures, unwept, unburied” like he is forgotten (29). It is also intriguing to see how Antigone’s sympathetic response to the lack of her brother’s burial is actually the familial love she has for him. Because she loves and considers him a part of her family, she is emotionally sorrowful for the way he has been treated.

In merely looking at the surface, one notices right away that both plays are significant in that they avoid the social temptation of using a man as a protagonist. Looking deeper into the stories, however, one can see that in even more contradiction with society, the female characters go against men. Both Antigone and Nora step into the spotlight as the female hero who has been

One of the major conflicts in the “Antigone” is the struggle between the males and the females. It is explicit that the two genders are involved in deliberate efforts for dominance. In addition, it is evident that the perception that men were meant to dominate the women is paramount. For example, Ismene tells Antigone that even from birth the females "were not born to contend with men" (75), which depicts the women 's subordinate positions in their interactions with the men. Besides, the phrase describes women obedience and their passive nature in the confrontation of the day-to-day activities in the society. The women are displayed as beings whose role is to observe and to have little control over the unfolding events at a given time. Within