Antigone By Sophocles Essay

The period that Athens’ Sophocles lived in was a time of important changes to the traditional Greek ways of life. The most significant catalyst of change and concern of the period was democracy. From here stems ideas such as the nature, role and respect of and for the gods, and the individual. The drama of Antigone reflects these concerns in the context it was written through various ways. Athens in the middle of the fifth century BC was at the peak of its power. It attracted foreigners, writers

The piece of literature I chose was Antigone by Sophocles. As I was reading the play I couldn’t help but notice the similarities in the theme of two other more popular works. Based on the time frame of Antigone I can’t but help to think it influenced one if not both. The first thing I noticed in the beginning was the similarity to the story of Moses freeing the Israelites. Creon was very similar to the Pharaoh in that both originally were set in their way and thought they were the center of absolute

Since ancient times, Greece has honored the importance of family relationships and values through their literature and culture. The importance of kinship is seen explicitly in the plays Antigone by Sophocles and The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus. Both plays utilize family values as their central theme and root of action. The depth of blood bonds is the driving force behind the thoughts, actions and decisions of the characters and the conflict and plot in the plays. However, the path that each character

engendered a divided kingdom, broken family, and his eventual demise. Within the play Antigone by Sophocles, Creon’s character is developed through his various interactions with other characters. His growth and tragic flaws are revealed because of certain relationships, such as those with Antigone, Tiresias, and more importantly, Haemon. Haemon is the son of Creon and Eurydice, engaged to be married to Antigone. Throughout the play, he serves as a spokesman for justice, defending the moral basis

2015 The original drama of Antigone was introduced by Sophocles during 441BC; centuries later the same drama was presented by French composer Jean Anouilh. What was the difference between the two plays? What was Anouilh’s purpose of reconstructing a classical Greek drama to a French modern drama? Although both dramas are similar, they are having different content in them. Anouilh will clear up some of the questions. Anouilh’s drama looks similar to Sophocles, with the exception of an added

other hand, Sophocles, in the play “Antigone” reveals the grief, struggle, inner strife and distress of a young woman. Through her speech, Antigone can persuade her audience by employing rhetoric, passion and subtle alteration, and therefore, able to fight against injustice she faced from Creon. Thus, both Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr.

Antigone      Antigone, by Sophocles, is a story about the struggle between Antigone, who represents the laws of the gods and Creon, who represents the laws of the state. The play takes place circa 442 B.C. in the city-state of Thebes. The story revolves around the burial of Polyneices. Polyneices led an army against his brother, Etocles, the King of Thebes. They killed each other in battle and the new king, Creon, made a decree that only Etocles was to be buried because

authority are one of many themes in “Antigone”. In “Antigone” one of the toughest decisions is choosing between your family and the people you love or chose to obey the law instead. “Antigone” written by Sophocles is about a girl who wants to do right for her family and bury her brother Polyneices. Being sentenced to death because of her act, Antigone tries to show the king of Thebes, Creon how important family is and how it overrules authority. The genre of “Antigone” is tragedy and it was written in

Protagonist and Antagonist Antigone is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. ONE OF THE three surviving tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Euripides, and one of the great dramatists of world literature, Sophocles spanned in his long life (497-406 B.C.) the cultural flowering of Athens in the fifth century(Segal 1). Antigone is named after the daughter of King Oedipus of Thebes, a young woman who stood against the king’s decision and believed in the gods’ law

Frank Jevons in “In Sophoclean Tragedy, Humans Create Their Own Fate” comments on Sophocles’ irony: In this connection we may consider the “irony of Sophocles.” In argument irony has many forms That which best illustrates the irony of Sophocles is the method by which the ironical man, putting apparently innocent questions or suggestions, leads some person from one preposterous statement to another, until, perhaps, the subject of the irony realizes his situation and discovers that when he thought