Explination To Violence In Antigone And Julius Caesar

Bad situations typically imply drastic measures. In Antigone by Sophocles, and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, they resort to drastic measures too often. In Antigone and Julius Caesar, they are very apt to resort to violence as a solution to their problems, this is shown through, Portia stabbing herself, in Julius Caesar, Haimon threatening to kill himself in Antigone, and Eurydice killing herself in Antigone.

In Julius Caesar, the first scene that shows the characters inclination to violence is Portia stabbing herself. When Portia stabs herself, her motive is to solve her problem with Brutus not opening up to her. This clearly illustrates that violence was the first option for her. Second, this event displays that she was unhappily married and the only choice to fix that problem, in her mind, was to stab herself. Instead of actually talking about her feelings to Brutus and having a mature discussion she resorted to violence as a solution

First, this shows that Eurydice would rather resort to violence and kill herself than be alive and have to deal with the pain of her son's suicide. In this scene Eurydice’s suicide is explained to Creon by The Messenger, “ And her heart/ Welcomed the knife her own hand guided,/and a great cry burst from her lips for Megareus dead/ And for Haimon dead, her son’s;/ and her last breath” (Sophocles 723). This quote by The Messenger reveals that she chose violence and suicide over her own life. Second, in the final moments of her life she cursed Creon. In this scene Eurydice’s final minutes are explained by The Messenger “And her last breath/ was a curse for their father; the murderer of her sons”(Sophocles 723). This quote by The Messenger divulges that Eurydice cursed Creon in her final breath condemning him to the same fate as her son’s. Third, Eurydice would rather die than live one more minute with her husband who she blames for her grief and the deaths of her