Is one right to disobey civil law when one’s conscience dictates? Is it ok to break the law to make yourself feel right, and to take a heavy law off your shoulders? In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone disobeyed civil law when her conscience dictated and buries her brother, when she knows it is against the rules since he has been a traitor to their city. She does this because she knows that if she had not it would have made her feel guilty. It is right to disobey civil law to clear your conscience and do something right.
In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone vs self supports the theme because antigone says “Creon buried our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a soldier's funeral, and it was right, and polyneices fought just as bravely and died just as miserably.” (line 17, page 751) This shows
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Also in the play Antigone by Sophocles, antigone and ismene shows the theme because when creon tries to get ismene in trouble because he thinks ismene helped antigone ismene says “Yes, if she will let me say so. I am guilty” (line 147, page 765). This shows that ismene feels bad for not helping antigone and feels she should get punished too. Although ismene is trying to be punished, antigone says “no, ismene. You have no right to say so. You would not help me, and i will not have you help me” (line 148 page 765) this shows that antigone feels that she shouldn't let ismene get in trouble because it would make her feel guilty since ismene is innocent. Man vs man conflict shows the theme because in these examples the characters don't want to make themselves feel guilty by affecting
This concept of defiance is best illustrated in Antigone when Antigone views Creon’s edict with odium. Although Creon exercises omnipotent authority as the king of Thebes, Antigone defies him with hubris by disobeying Creon’s mandate to ban Polynices’s burial. Antigone disagrees with Creon’s law, and she alternatively decides to bury Polynices herself. This act of defiance causes Creon to think that Antigone is “guilty of double insolence...Breaking the given laws and boasting it...Who is the man here, she or I, if this crime goes unpunished” (Sophocles 16). This quotation exemplifies Antigone’s pride because she believes she exceeds Creon’s power, and thus she is superior enough to disobey Creon’s orders. Antigone unapologetically boasts about her insubordination to Creon, as she openly admits that she committed this infraction. Even though this event is not seen to be a significant event in this play, Antigone’s pride resulting from Polyneices’s burial marks the beginning of a domino effect: an increasing conflict between Antigone and Creon which causes the gods to be angered, Creon’s family to fall apart, and the mass corruption of the city of Thebes. Collectively, these effects characterize Creon’s and Antigone’s downfall. Despite Antigone knowing the severity of her defiant actions, she states that “Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way”
In the play Antigone, both Antigone and Kreon could be considered tragic heros. A tragic hero, defined by A Dictionary of Literary, Dramatic and Cinematic Terms, is someone who suffers due to a tragic flaw, or hamartia. This Greek word is variously translated as "tragic flaw" or "error" or "weakness". Kreon's hamartia, like in many plays, is hybris - Greek for overweening pride, arrogance, or excessive confidence. Kreon's hybris causes him to attempt to violate the laws of order or human rights, another main part of a tragic hero. Also, like all tragic heroes, Kreon suffers because of his hamartia and then realizes his flaw.
Jodi Picoult once said “Some lessons can’t be taught. They simply have to be learned.”; in life what defines a person is what they become after they go through a series of trials and tribulations. Oedipus The King tells the story of a king who tries to outrun his fate and in the end self-banishes himself out of guilt leaving the kingdom of Thebes to Creon. The play starts with King Laius, who appoints Creon to rule in his kingdom while he consults the oracle at Delphi. Enraged by the death of King Laius, the gods cast a plague upon Thebes, which is the Sphinx, who starts to destroy the city. Terrified by the destruction of the kingdom, Creon states that anyone who might solve this riddle,
In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the differences in Creon’s and Antigone’s passions and responsibilities helped illustrate both characters central flaws. By doing so, the play was also able to imply that in order to achieve a sense of inner peace and political stability; one has to be able to balance the two powers equally. Antigone and Creon are both very determined, zealous characters who were unable to achieve the stability because they were both unwilling to compromise. Often times, personal events or emotions can cause people to overlook moral or civil laws.
The relationship between father and son is like water and fire. Fire being Creon father of Haemon being the water. Power hungry fire Creon sparks in power. A small flame but quickly grows into a forest fire that no amount of water can stop it. Whatever Haemon suggest doing what's right, Creon promptly burns through his opinion like it didn’t faze fire when water touches just a hiss of the evaporating allying with Haemon assumptions.
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, she has a sister, Ismene, two brothers, with a mother and an uncle, Creon. Antigone has watch her two brothers battle each other and soon slain each other. She is torn between the law and what is morally right. The brothers defended a side of their own in a war, one with the law, the other against it. Antigone’s father has passed away hence Creon being the new ruler. Creon's sworn to prohibit anyone to bury Polyneices, because of his treachery against the kingdom. While Eteocles, who fought with the kingdom, was given a soldier's funeral with military honor. Antigone begs her sister, Ismene, to help her bury Polyneices, but she declines in fear. Ismene warns Antigone not to harass the law and leaver their
...woman brought up resilient morals? Sophocles didn’t make this play about a man and a man having a conflict, but instead a woman and a man, this is for a reason. This play was supposed to show its audience a new type of woman, a woman that could hold her own and stand up for herself. This was a change for the time period yet has a great impact. Antigone could be said to be the woman version of Creon; both stubborn, strong, and passionate. They come in conflict when neither are willing to back down from their stance, each set in their ways. Two tragic heroes that have a goal in mind for good, yet goes about it the wrong way.
... middle of paper ... ... The first theme is present when Antigone continues on with her plan to bury her brother, even though she knows she will be killed. Another theme Sophocles' play portrays is foolish pride:
From the tragic plays Oedipus and Antigone, Sophocles exemplifies Creon’s dramatic character shift. In the beginning of Oedipus, Creon is seen as honest and short-tempered. Although he did not have the intention to end up as king, towards the end of the play, he gains interest in the throne and desires to take power over Oedipus to become the ruler of Thebes. When Creon is finally king in the second chapter, Antigone, he begins to adapt similar personality traits as Oedipus, having troubles with certain decisions made.
In Greek society, women are viewed as untrustworthy and incapable of possessing power. In the plays, Antigone and Agamemnon, the authors portray the female characters as subordinate to the male characters. An individual’s gender dictates how society reacts towards their actions and what is acceptable. It is outside of the society’s guidelines for a woman to assert herself in any manner. She is expected to obey man’s law regardless of her own perspective towards the situation.
...se Creon was not yet the king of Thebes during the period of Oedipus’s ruling, and Antigone who was not yet a renowned figure acting independently in her own will without any dilemmas. It is until the story of Antigone when Antoine’s rights are desecrated by the might of Creon’s rule and that it led Antigone to bail and revolt against it. This is the dynamic that Sophocles sees in Antigone within the society of Thebes, and through the perception of Antigone’s heroic deeds, equal to that against the behavior of Creon, Sophocles exemplify to the audience the unbalance nature in society.
Antigone, by Sophocles, is a Greek tragedy in which two main characters have conflicting ideas of justice. One is Creon, and the other is Antigone. Antigone’s main response to justice is through her family, in her eyes doing anything for her family is her way of bringing justice. When Polynices is killed and Creon refuses to bury him, Antigone pushes many limits to bury her brother. In order for Antigone to truly feel like she has served justice and honored her family, she must bury her brother and go against the state.
The Themes of Antigone and Oedipus Antigone and Oedipus, written by Sophocles, are dramatic plays with a tragic ending. The main theme for Antigone is that people sometimes have to learn the hard way from their mistakes. This theme is expressed in the final four lines of the play. They read, There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, and proud men of old age learn to be wise.
The play “Antigone” is a tragedy by Sophocles. One main theme of the play is Religion vs. the state. This theme is seen throughout the play. Antigone is the supporter of religion and following the laws of the gods and the king of Thebes, Creon, is the state. In the play Creon has made it against the law to bury Antigone’s brother, something that goes against the laws of the gods, this is the cause of most conflict in the story. This struggle helps to develop the tragic form by giving the reader parts of the form through different characters.
Creon does not learn a lesson from Oedipus' accusatory behavior. Instead he adapts this bad personality trait. Throughout Antigone, he accuses everyone who tries to give him advice of betraying him. Whereas, in Oedipus, he is falsely accused by Oedipus of trying to take over the throne. This paper will compare and contrast his behavior and evaluate if he learned anything from one play to the next.