Character of antigone

Antigone Character Analysis In Ancient Greek tragedies, women often had to go out of their way to stand out and stand up for what they believed in. In the play Antigone, Antigone’s way of doing this is not completely out of the ordinary. Antigone wanted to give her brother, Polyneices, a proper burial after his wrongful death. Proper burials have just been made illegal by the king, Creon. Antigone wants to prove that giving her brother a proper burial is right. Through her actions, Antigone proves

The characters Creon and Antigone, from Sophocles’ Antigone, act as cautionary figures for the audience as they warn against the intense belief in and dedication to a single perspective, as doing so leads to a certain lack of malleability that is detrimental to maintaining a fully functioning society. The onlookers of this play, the Athenian people, come to naturally notice the benefits of remaining within the middle ground between beliefs such as those that Creon and Antigone stood for. The unfortunate

Antigone’s character is one that is dynamic and interesting as she displayed several strong personal characteristics and being steadfast in her convictions. She had a strong and powerful leaning towards the dark world and the dead. She proved to be primarily loyal to the divinities and the gods instead of the mortality of man. She was very open and expressive towards her love for the dead which is evidenced by her harsh language to her sister and the king, making her an unforgettable character. When his

ways and see which works better." -- John Carmack. As I read and reread through "Antigone", by Sophocles, I use extreme efforts to better understand the characters by comparing myself in depth to their own unique attributes. In doing this I discovered that none of these characters mirror me completely, however, the messenger seems to share several traits that I see in myself. While there were many interesting characters I could relate myself to in part, none of them seemed more like myself than the

She buried the body?! Where is it, where’s the body and who did it? Antigone has two brothers, one named Polyneices, and the other, Eteocles. They both fought for different sides when it came to the Theban war. When they fought in the battle, both of them died, and Creon being their uncle and also the King, he decided that since Polyneices didn’t fight for the same side as the King, that he should not be buried or honored. Antigone thought otherwise, and buried the body anyways, no matter what the

The play Antigone, based in 441 B.C. in Thebes, Greece, told a tale about a fictional family. At the commencement of the play, main character Antigone and her sister, Ismene, travel to Thebes. Upon arrival, the two discover that both of their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, are dead. Eteocles has been given the proper burial, but Creon, Antigone’s uncle who had just attained the throne, banned the burial of Polyneices, because he deemed him to be a traitor. Antigone believed that this was unfair

Is it better to be a dead hero or a forgotten bystander? In Antigone, one of Sophocles’ three Theban plays, the actions of Antigone, one of Oedipus’ daughters, take center stage. After the death of her brothers, Antigone defies both the decree by Creon, the leader of Thebes, and wishes of her sister, Ismene, to bury her brother according to Ancient Greek funeral rites. After being captured, Antigone is sentenced to death and ultimately hangs herself, as her fiancé and his mother both kill themselves

In the greek tragedy, Antigone, written by Sophocles there are many characters that had tragic flaws that eventually led to their death, but a main character that possesses many of these flaws is Creon. Early on in the book he is talking to the Chorus and Choragos explaining what he is going to do about the deaths of Eteocles and Polyneices when he says, “Polyneices, I say,/ is to have no burial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for/ him” (Sophocles I.i. 169-171). This quote is important

(Lines 1492-1493)” Throughout the play Creon is known as a tragic hero, due to his chance to change his own destiny. Although the decision is his to make, Creon still chooses to put his own selfishness in front of what's truly right by others. Within Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon acts as an instrument of suffering for others by his selfish acts and lack of sympathy, consequently bringing more anguish into his life and to those that are closest to him, ultimately portraying a more tragic vision to the

beliefs. In the tragedy, Antigone, Sophocles conveys Creon, the King of Thebes, as a man obsessed with the law and puts the state’s needs above his own family’s. Antigone, his rebellious niece, wants to uphold her duties and honor her family name by burying her “traitor” brother, who was not giving a proper burial. Creon forbids this burial, but Antigone ignores the law and buries her brother anyways. Creon becomes so obsessed with the law that he decides to bury Antigone alive, which displeases his