The Gratifying Qualities Of Sophocles ' Antigone

Her determination to honor the deceased led to her eternal rest. The play Antigone by Sophocles is a tragedy about a young woman named Antigone whose brother died in combat and was not permitted to be buried by the king. This leads Antigone to bury her brother and face the wrath of the king’s punishment. After Antigone’s death, fate changes for Creon, the king, when he loses all of his family members for going against the laws of the gods. As the eponymous character of the play Antigone, Antigone breaks Creon’s law by burying her brother and is sentenced to death, even if it were her uncle’s decree. Nevertheless, the character Creon suffers a fate far worse than death for upholding a law he had set up. The role of family ties in Antigone is

In the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, King Creon created a law that denied proper burial rites to anyone who invaded or betrayed the city of Thebes. Antigone defied this law by burying her brother, Polynices, after he was harshly accused of being a traitor. Both Creon and Antigone showed a tenacious passion toward their perception of justice, unwilling to accept that honoring the law and honoring the individual conscience were both justified in different ways. The stubbornness that they shared led them both to meet their downfalls, which conveyed the idea that being too proud to accept guidance from others ultimately leads to dire consequences.

The play Antigone by Sophocles is a play like no other. There are three major themes or ideas which have a very important role in the play. The first major theme is fate, on how the play comes about and the turn of events that come about throughout it. Another main theme or idea is the pride the characters have and their unwillingness they have to change their minds once they are set on something. The last major theme is loyalty and the practical problem of conduct involving which is a higher law between the divine laws and those of the humans. It is an issue of which law is the "right" law, and if Creon and Antigone's acts are justifiable or not. The issues that Antigone and Creon have between them

In the story, Antigone by Sophocle is a Greek tragedy whose characters misfortunes lead to their final deaths. This play is about a royal family’s cured and King Creon’s selfish ways. Antigone is a young royal lady who fights for her beliefs and defies the king’s ruling by burying her dead brother. In the end, to the king’s dismay, finds that all his loved ones, dead. Creon and Antigone differ from each other by how Antigone is loyal, beliefs, and consideration.

Throughout the play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone does not have one main motivation, but rather a blend of many. As Antigone’s three most evident motives are doing the right thing, flouting Creon’s authority, and expressing her overall anger at life, the first and the last are most important. In this play, the combination of Antigone’s emotions toward her grave past and her obligation to her brother, regarding the gods, fuses together to be the incentive for her actions, regardless of Creon. Challenging Creon is almost a side effect, a medium through which Antigone can achieve her goals.

The play “Antigone” by Sophocles, and translated by Paul Roche, is set in Thebes where Antigone’s uncle, Creon takes control of the throne and leads the fall of Antigone’s family. In battle for the throne, both of Antigone’s brothers die, and while Eteocles is given a burial, burial for Polyneices is refused under the assumption that he was a traitor. The tragic hero demonstrates hamartia and hubris which lead to their downfall. Throughout the play Sophocles proves that Creon is the tragic hero which lets his distrustful and stubborn attitude leave him in sorrow.

In the play “Antigone,” Sophocles portrays both Antigone and Creon as tragic protagonists. Both characters become conflicted with each other after Antigone buries her brother Polyneices although Creon has forbidden anyone from burying or mourning him. This begins the conflict of the state which Creon represents the law of the state vs the family which Antigone represents the law of the gods or the underworld. On one hand, Antigone is enacting divine justice of the gods by bringing back the soul of her brother to the underworld. She goes against the law of man for the sake of the law of gods. While Creon believes to be carrying out what has to be done for the sake of the state, as he is the king and wants to bring justice in his way. He believed that Polyneices wanted to burn his fatherland and the gods. I believe this is Creon’s tragedy due to his hubris, or excessive prideful actions that have lead him to a loss of life by the end of the play. For a tragedy to be a tragedy as stated by Aristotle, the story must cause a catharsis, and by the end of the play we witness Creon realizing what he does wrong and States “everything I touch turns against me, my head bows to the fate that has leapt on it.”

The character of Antigone in Sophocles’ play, Antigone, is one of the most controversial tragic characters in classic literature. The war in her city has torn her family apart, caused the death of both her brothers, and created a reason for her to fight against the King, her uncle. Her uncle, Creon, makes a ruling that her brother, Polynices, is not to be buried because he is a traitor, but according to her religion, her brother’s soul will not go to the afterlife until he is buried. In defense of her brother, she buries his body illegally and is subsequently sentenced to death. With her complex patterns of thought, bold actions, and the end she encounters, the character of Antigone causes debate among critics as to

Aristotle once said that a Greek Tragedy must include an important person that has a flaw. By this flaw, the audience should feel pity and fear. Creon, a character in the Greek tragedy “Antigone”, resembles a perfect example of a tragic hero. This play was written by Sophocles, a historic playwright during the 5th century. It begins with the illegal burial of Polyneices, Antigone’s beloved brother. Creon, the King of Thebes, is coerced to condemn his niece Antigone to death. Being loyal to his city, Creon follows through with his punishment of Antigone. By doing so, his character is changed forever. Creon has the qualities of a tragic hero: he is a good person with superior status, he has a tragic flaw, and he comes to realize the role he

Family is very important and is shown through the many ways in society. That family will often be more important than the authority or law. The tragic Greek play, Antigone written by Sophocles. Within Antigone, Sophocles presents many situations where characters are forced to face their feelings of law or family. Throughout Antigone, Sophocles proves his strong devotion to family, even more. Sophocles presents these through the actions of Antigone, Creon, and Haemon with the choices that they make throughout the play. For instance, Antigone had many chances to obey the law or her own familial bonds. Antigone chooses to obey family, and bury Polynices even though burying breaks Creon's law. Antigone pleads with her sister to help, but when she says no, Antigone responds, “But as for me/ I will bury the brother I love” (Prologue. 192). Antigone was willing to break Creon's authority as a family means much more to her, this presents her as selfless. Along with breaking the law, Antigone also risks execution for that crime. When Antigone learns of her punishment, after Creon discovers, Antigone decides if entombing her brother was worth it. Following Creon's warning, she says, “This death of mine/ is of no importance; but if I had left my brother/ lying in death unburied, I should have suffered. / Now I do not” (Scene II. 208). Antigone shows the courage that even death won't scare her from her goals. Antigone chooses family, when in the face of the capital punishment.

When faced with the option of obeying the laws of her society or honoring her brother Polynices’ death, Antigone’s choice was a difficult one. In the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, there is a feud between choosing to do the right and wrong thing. On one hand, moral beliefs pull Antigone closer to disobeying law. On the other hand, fear of disrespecting what is left of her family keeps her on the edge of making a decision. Her uncle Creon, also known as the King of Thebes, believes that Polynices betrayed the country and does not deserve a proper burial, but the controversy ultimately leads to Antigone going against the law, fulfilling her moral compass. This however can be questioned by her act of suicide during the end of the play. Antigone’s choice to bury her brother has moral worth because of her religious and self beliefs, she did the right thing for the right

The dramatic question of this play is whether it is right to disobey the laws of man if it is right by the laws of the gods. Antigone decides that it is the gods’ laws that are to be obeyed rather than human laws and acts accordingly. As a result, Antigone is the protagonist of this play because her actions are the direct focus and defining factors that illustrate the playwrights meaning and purpose. She is also the character that directly and with zeal, acts in response to the inciting incident. In contrast, Creon, is the antagonist, that prevents Antigone from accomplishing her goal to bury her brother. He believes throughout the play that his laws dominate over the laws of the gods, and is punished as a result. This is seen in the resolution of the play, as due to Creon’s tyranny and Antigone’s death, Haemon and Creon’s wife decide to follow in Antigone’s footsteps in ending their own lives. This resolution appearing at the end of the play, and revealing the lesson for Creon that pride destroyed him.

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.

Lord Acton, a well-known British historian, writer, and politician, resonated the repercussions of power and dominance by stating that "All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Moreell, "Power Corrupts"). This is just one of the themes covered in Sophocles 's Antigone. Within this dramatic play, Sophocles questions the conventions of hubris, hamartia, and power. They all play a role in the narrative where Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, vows to pay respects to her dead brother, Polyneices, as he laid dead in the battlefield outside Thebes. At the same time, the ruler of Thebes, Creon, issues an edict against the burial of Polyneices 's body since he was the man responsible for trying to invade and destroy Thebes. In Creon 's mind, he sees Polyneices as a traitor and deserves no respect from anyone in Thebes. For Antigone, a question arises on whether she must follow the law or provide rest and comfort to her late brother in a dignified manner? Within the play Antigone, Sophocles expresses that hubris and the hunger for power and control can lead anyone to their ends, without regard to original motive. Sophocles uses Antigone and Creon serve as examples of the interaction of the themes of hubris, hamartia, and power.

When a ruler frightens his society, people tend to keep their feelings and opinions to themselves, muted by fear, they become hostile towards their ruler. This will lead to rebellions. In Sophocles’ tragic play, Antigone, the main character, a young stubborn woman named Antigone goes against her uncle Creon. Creon is the king of Thebes, the city in which they live. Antigone’s brother Polyneices tried to take over the city of Thebes but Eteocles, Antigone’s other brother stopped him. During the battle, they kill each other. Eteocles was given an honorable burial but since Polyneices was seen as an enemy he was left to rot on the streets by Creon who placed an edict to not allow a person to bury him. Antigone becomes furious and tries to bury him, but she is caught and sentenced to “death” as the reader advances through Antigone, it ends up noticeably clear by the plot twists that the play is a tragedy on the most fundamental level. Antigone is willing to suffer the consequences in order to do what is morally right, going through with actions like civil disobedience and insolence.