Antigone Essay

The play Antigone composed by Sophocles relays the dispute between Antigone and Creon, two tragic heroes, and their opposing philosophies on honor. Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fell on separate sides of the battlefield. Fighting for Creon’s kingdom, Eteocles is to receive a proper, honorable burial. While Polynices, for the rebels, “ is to be left unburied, left to be eaten by dogs and vultures” (131). Although both authority and family are present, the reader can interpret that to

Antigone, when your sister, Ismene, tries to die with you, why do object her? ANTIGONE: When I decided to bury my brother against the King’s will, I asked Ismene did she wanted to help bury our brother, which of course she said, “no” and that she didn’t want to disobey the king. To which I

more mistakes, often gaining knowledge from those mistakes that build us as a person. In the play Antigone, each character lacks judgement and has a lot to learn. Antigone’s determination and naive search for a purpose leads to her premature death. In the society that Antigone lives in women are forced to embrace their feminine roles and are not allowed to attain glory on their own terms. Antigone, a young strong-minded woman only seeks glory and wants to find her place in the world.

The death of Antigone is truly a tragic episode in the Theban Plays, where she hung herself with a woven linen of her dress. By convention, her death would be characterized with feminine quality. However, Antigone, one of the few female characters in the book, possessed distinguishable female characteristics that are as remarkable as a male hero. Antigone was determined when she made up her mind to bury her brother. She was an agent of her words and took up the risks that accompanied to her deeds

1. Do you think woman have been under the shadow of men? Antigone by Sophocles is a great is a Greek era story that sets an example of a different type of woman, that is willing to risk everything for her beliefs. Antigone is brave and different because she stands up for what she believed and was willing to risk everything. 2. Antigone was brave because she stands up for her beliefs and her moral choices. Antigone was talking with Ismene and she told her “I will bury my brother; And if I die for

Antigone buried her brother because she believed it was simply the right thing to do. This is why she accepted the consequences to her actions; she knew the consequences and was willing to die for doing the right thing. Antigone accepted her punishment, died with pride and she was confident with her choice without looking back once. But some could say she was selfish and never thought of the consequences of other people, but those people decided to join her because of Creon not Antigone. Over all

Teiresias tells Creon that his refusal to bury Polyneices and his punishment of Antigone for the burial will bring the curses of the gods down on Thebes. Teiresias foretell about Creon's fate is that his house will be full of grief, with is similar to telling that Creon or his family members will be kill. The ironic about Teiresias is blind is that although he is blind, but he realized what's going to happen based on Creon's decisions, while Creon, who he is not blind, but his decisions shows blindness

better her city is Antigone from the play “Antigone”. In this story she is able to use her power as a princess to be a voice of the people that were too afraid to speak about what is right in there city as well as be an entity of which females could look up to, and find strength in themselves to know that they can make a difference just as much as men. A powerful statement by antigone shows her message, “they are with me but keep their tongues in leash” this displays that Antigone

The play Antigone is written by Sophocles around the time 441 BC. Antigone is daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. Her siblings are Polyneices, Eteocles, and Ismene. Antigone is engaged to Haemon who is the son of the Creon, the new king of Thebes. In the play, Polyneices and his brother Eteocles killed each other in a battle for the control of Thebes. Polyneices was attacking the town of Thebes and Eteocles was defending it. The new king of Thebes, King Creon, wanted Eteocles to be buried but not Polyneices

always ready to forgive. In Antigone by Sophocles, Creon is immersed in a “power trip” that alienates and even kills his family. He caused his son, Haemon’s death, his wife, Eurydice’s death and Antigone’s death. Creon views himself as the perfect leader, believes he is always correct, and in turn has to live with the guilt of three deaths that were his fault.      Antigone goes alone to bury Polynices and deliberately disobeys Creon’s law. Antigone not only lost her two brothers