Similarities Between Julius Caesar And Antigone

     In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Creon was engaged in a conflict with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. Creon and Antigone did not see eye-to-eye the entire play due to extreme differences. Creon and Antigone had many similarities despite their enormous discrepancies. Having as many differences as they did, it made them uniquely similar in numerous ways. The similarities that Antigone and Creon shared were independence, loyalty toward their views, cruelty and arrogance (“The Similarities”). The connection shared by Antigone and Creon showed that as hard as Sophocles tried to make them diverse, he made them unintentionally equivalent at the same time.

The media of the modern world and the Ancient Greek world are actually more similar than they may seem at first. Even though the time periods are centuries apart, they have many of the same elements to them. The play Antigone is about a young woman who buries her brother despite the fact that her uncle, the king, says that it is against the law to do so. The movie John Q is about a man whose son is very sick and needs a heart transplant, but they cannot afford it since they are in a recession. Antigone and John Q are similar because they include fate, they accept their consequences willingly, and they have an unyielding character.

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.

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.

Society plays a crucial role in everyone’s lives as it directs the way one behaves, observes, and interacts. Antigone and “Borders” written by Sophocles and Thomas King respectively, demonstrate the roles and decisions executed by the protagonists according to societal expectations. To briefly describe, Antigone is a play set in the ancient Geek era where the protagonist, Antigone, breaks a law that holds the punishment of death, to give her traitorous brother a respectable funeral. On the other hand, “Borders” is a short story set in modern day times where the protagonist, the narrator’s mother, is attempting to cross the border to visit her daughter without surrendering her Blackfoot status to a Canadian or American citizenship. Both women

The involvement of women is very important in the two stories, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles. Throughout each story it becomes clear that the ideas and biases surrounding women play an important part in how society views women, and how women see themselves. Readers also see these ideas spread into the minds of women affecting what they do in their life, and how they act. Antigone and Ismene, from Antigone, and Calpurnia and Portia, from Julius Caesar are both examples of this major theme. These four women heavily influence their play and the outcome. Because of this it is clear to see the importance and relevance of women in Antigone and Julius Caesar.

In Shakespeare’s plays of Antigone and Julius Caesar, Creon and Caesar are two characters that are unique in each of their relative plays but are similar to each other in a variety of ways. Both display clear traits of arrogance, superiority, and stubbornness, as well as evidence of manipulation. Yet another clear correlation connecting the two is their positions of power and their own hand in their downfalls.

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance” – Confucius (Brainy Quote.com). In Sophocles’ Antigone and in Anouilh’s version of the play, knowledge is a significant theme that motivates the characters’ actions and behaviors. In both plays, the two protagonists, Antigone and Creon, believe that they are knowledgeable and are fully aware of the state in Thebes. In addition, they believe that they are completely conscious of their intelligence, their influence and their power. While both characters are intelligent and base their decisions on their knowledge of certain situations, the fact is that both of them are unaware of their own weaknesses and their shortcomings.

The justification of murder is an extremely controversial topic. Several people may feel as if murder is necessary if the crime committed is unlawful. However, some people take matters into their own hands to decide if someone’s life is worth living. The plays Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles each exemplify examples of this scandalous situation.

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.

Antigone is a play that was written in ancient Greece by the playwright Sophocles. It is the third play in a trilogy of tragedies about the city-state of Thebes, revolving around Oedipus Rex. Antigone starts the day after a civil war fought between the two sons of Oedipus Rex after his death. The civil war ended in death for both brothers, so their uncle, Creon, assumed the role of King of Thebes. The main conflict of the play begins when Creon gives one brother, Eteocles, a burial with honors, but passes a law forbidding a burial for the other brother, Polyneices with the penalty of death. One of the sisters of Eteocles and Polyneices, Antigone disagrees with this law, and decides to bury Polyneices, resulting in Creon sentencing Antigone to death. A conflict emerges between Antigone and Creon, who appear to be opposites. However, despite Antigone and Creon’s different stances on law, they are ultimately more similar than different because of their shared value of loyalty and their shared characteristic, hubris.

At least once in our lives we will face a situation where we have to pick the best from two worst circumstances. It might not be a life or death situation but it won’t be an easy decision to make either. But we do choose what we think is the best for us. We all must have heard about the famous play Antigone by Sophocles and the Apology by Plato. We find Antigone and Socrates in a similar dilemma as we read about them. They both face an ethical tragedy where they don’t know what the right thing to do is but they still chose what’s best for them. Justice involves a critical role in both of their lives. How might one define justice? Does it vary person to person or country to country? Antigone and Socrates both have their own view on justice.

The theme death has always played a crucial role in literature. Death surrounds us and our everyday life, something that we must adapt and accept. Whether its on television or newpaper, you'll probobly hear about the death of an individual or even a group. Most people have their own ideas and attitude towards it, but many consider this to be a tragic event due to many reasons. For those who suffered greatly from despair, living their life miserably and hopelessly, it could actually be a relief to them. Death effects not only you, but also those around you, while some people may stay unaffected depending on how they perceive it.

Both Creon of Sophocles’ Antigone and Achilles of Homer’s The Iliad end up allowing the body of their enemy a proper burial. During the time following the death of Hector, Achilles is in a position very similar to that which Creon deals with in Antigone. Both men show similar flaws, and face similar struggles. The difference between the two men is only subtly discernible until the telling moment when each man is faced with pressure to change his stance on the fate of the fallen warrior. Each man’s initial reaction is quite telling of his character, and the motives behind each man’s decision (although the motives are debatable) also help to expose his true nature. In the end, there seems to be a quality within each man which lies above

The king of kings Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar are considered to this day as some of the most influential rulers and military generals in history. While there’s a distinct difference between their journey to power and background, it’s undeniable that the two leaders share many similar characteristics and the infamous ambition both possess that drives them almost to the brink of obsession in order to achieve their individual goals.