Polynices

Meghana Aghi October 6th, 2014 AP English Mr. Shaffner Matriarchal Madness Women have been silenced for generations upon generations, their voices of reason stripped away and locked inside the caves of submissiveness. The key is thrown out into a vast ocean of misery and peril, and the hope to break free slowly diminishes. Yet, there are always those women who will never accept their expected place in society. These women try to break down those barriers in attempts to leave an imprint on this

importance of choosing family over authority in his play “Antigone”. Regardless of the punishment, Antigone contradicts the laws in order to pay her brother respect. King Creon clearly informs everyone on the consequences of tampering with the corpse of Polynices, Antigone’s brother. Antigone argues

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

The qualifications of a tragic hero vary between Aristotle and Shakespeare. Aristotle thinks of a tragic hero as someone who is a noble character by choice and makes his/her own destiny, while Shakespeare sees a tragic hero as someone who is born of nobility and born to be important. Although both tragic hero's end in a tragic death that effects many people, not all tragic hero's fit perfectly into both categories. In Sophocles’ Antigone, Creon is considered a tragic hero. Creon follows Aristotle's

Stand up or Don’t stand at all In a human's lifetime someone has to stand up for what they believe in, in order to make a difference. The Greek play Antigone, by Sophocles takes place in the city of Thebes and is about two sisters, Ismene and Antigone, reacting to the deaths of their two brothers. Ismene and Antigone’s two brothers were at war on opposites sides of a civil war. They ended up killing each other in combat. Since the brothers, who were supposed to be the next kings of Thebes, were

Antigone starts the play with the idea of going against men’s rule over women, and later takes her plan into action, leading to the death of Creon authority due to his inability to be flexible. For example, in the play, Antigone is used as an example to show how the roles of women were heading to change in society in a feminine perspective. A good way of saying it is like when a dictator dies, his image and popularity dies with him, but when an individual that is self sacrificing and independent

life, Antigone is in fact the one that has won Haemon over. Antigone, written by the Athenian Sophocles, is about a woman named Antigone who lives in a city named Thebes. The play’s plot is based on her attempt to successfully bury her brother Polynices whom perished in a battle with his brother that also assumed the role of

According to the Webster's dictionary, blame is defined as the responsibility of doing wrong or fault. The play Antigone, by Sophocles, includes many characters that are blamed for their acts. Creon and Antigone are the main characters that are to be blamed. The conflict begins when Antigone buries Polyneices because she gives importance to her family more than the city. Creon orders that Polyneices should not be buried because of his betrayal against city. This raises tensions in Thebes, blaming

The play Antigone revolves around Antigone and how she defies the laws Creon implemented to prevent anyone from burying Polyneices. Did Antigone actually do the right thing to justify her decisions against Creon’s laws, or was Creon’s laws perfectly fine and he was correct in the decisions he made throughout the play. Antigone made the correct choice in burying her brother, because she would rather disobey the laws of a man than rejecting the laws of the gods, and a man in charge isn't always correct

A title is a direct relation to the novel itself. When a reader picks up a new story they wonder what the title means. They ask themselves is it a quote from the book or is the title the name of the main character? The novel “The Fault in our Stars” says it’s title in parts of the story, and Arthur Conan Doyle chose the title “Sherlock Holmes” because the story is about Sherlock. In the drama “Antigone” by Sophocles, the characterization, the conflict, and the resolution is why Antigone is the