Essays on Antigone

In society, pride and selfishness are one of man’s most compelling yet detrimental qualities. It can nurture leadership and most importantly success; however, pride can also exhibit a negative universal connotation which is clearly manifested in the characters’ actions and intentions throughout the novel. In Sophocles’ Antigone, the prominent recurrence of a type of egoistic nature is evidently a key source which resulted in Creon’s as well as Antigone’s ultimate downfall. One who argues that ...

Antigone is one of the most popular examples of Greek tragedy that survives today. It was written by the Greek playwright Sophocles who was born near Athens in 496 BC. He was one of the most celebrated plays writes in Athens and one of his most celebrated works was the tragic play Antigone.According to Aristotle the main aim of Greek tragedy is to bring a 'catharsis' out of the spectators in order to make them feel pity and fear so that they could leave the theatre feeling both cleansed and ...

Jean Anouilh's Antigone is arguably the most famous tragedy ever performed, as it greatly satisfies Aristotle's ideas of the nature of tragedy. Aristotle's theory of a tragedy is to bring catharsis of the audience, to make them feel the sensations of fear and pity, and to cleanse them of these sensations so that they would leave the theater with an understanding of the ways of men and gods. This catharsis of relief is brought up by witnessing disaster and change in the fortunes of the drama's ...

Imagine if your beloved brother was refused a fundamental right by the king after he died and if you tried to fight it, you would die too? Antigone is an ancient Greek play, written by Greek playwright Sophocles that was was believed to be published around 441 BC. It is about a girl named Antigone who goes against King Creon's wishes and buries her brother Polyneices. Polyneices was not buried because he and his twin brother Eteocles were not able to share the throne in Thebes due to pride and ...

'There are two kinds of pride, good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. (John C. Maxwell)Pride is not a bad thing, it can be used to represent our dignity and worthiness but for many people in this world their pride makes them feel superior to others, and in the long run, they become arrogant, narrow-minded people, and begin to yield to reason.The characteristic of a person with too ...

Throughout the play, Antigone, Antigone is acknowledged as the saint, or hero of this play. When comparing her character to Creon's, it offers some fascinating conversation starters about the idea of what establishes a hero and a foe. This play shows very evident cause and effect of how one's ego can change the entire direction of a story.At the beginning of the play, Antigone's siblings, Eteocles, and Polyneices have slaughtered each other in a duel. Lord Creon suggests that Polyneices is a ...

Greek society as a whole was incredibly male-dominant. With a focus on patrilineal and patriarchal ideals, women were viewed as inferior in nearly all aspects of life. During the reign of the Ancient Greek empire, women were confined to their homes (mans’ attempt to keep them from being raped and abused by the poor); they were ordered to bear children and work on the home; they were, as well, dissuaded from speaking out against their male counterparts. Women, in all, were oppressed in Ancient ...

 Antigone by Sophocles explore the tragic repercussions of a paranoid tyrant. Creon’s rule is controlled by his fear that people are conspiring against him, leading him to wrongly forbid a burial for Polynices, a man already dead. However, by favoring the laws of the gods and disobeying Creon’s law, Antigone is condemned to death. It’s Creon’s obduracy that lead him to his own downfall. This allows Sophocles to reveal that fear can lead one to unfairly use his power to assert control, but ...

The helpfulness of marriage in Antigone, written by Sophocles, is debatable, but the importance of marriage is not. The relation between views on marriage and the importance of it is undeniable; all of the protagonists can be linked to and with it. Though some characters in Antigone see marriage as a unfortunate necessity, marriage must be present to provide the characters with a reason to interact with each other. Through the couples in Antigone, marriage is depicted as either a helpful, ...

Antigone, penned by Sophocles, is the final play in the trilogy of tragedies, beginning with King Oedipus. The battle between the two sons of the extinct King Oedipus ends with both dying in battle. With the deaths of two brothers, Uncle Creon, the only remaining man, sits on the throne. Kreon orders that Eteokles, who died to defend his homeland, be buried in a beautiful ceremony, while his other brother Polyneikes is convicted of treason and his body is left in the middle to be eaten by ...

Creon is the Tragic Hero in the story because he is taken down by fate and will not listen to anybody. The significance is Creon and his significance takes place when he is the ruler of the city. Creon is a powerful guy and he never listens to anyone and only goes by his rules. The major ideas inside the story that makes Creon a tragic hero is that he is very annoying and does not like to listen to other people that he commands. The major claim in this argument is that Creon is the Tragic Hero ...

Fate is the idea that everything is destined to happen or turn out in a particular way and it is an important part of many tragedies. The lives of the characters have a set ending in their lives and some can recognize their fate and respond to it. In the play, according to Antigone's character analysis, Antigone is a victim of fate because she accepts her fate and died fighting to get a proper burial for her brother Polynices. The act of Antigone burying her brother Polynices, the traitor, ...

Sophocles’ Antigone (c.441 B.C. E) is a play from the time when power was the truth. It was the time when people’s voices were either bought by wealth or suppressed by power. Although government nowadays are completely different, it is still hard to change what has been engraved in genes. Creon, the king thought his pride was law, while Antigone thought her pride was above the law. Here, both characters are more a dictator than a president. Both characters are stubborn and too prideful to ...

In the readings of St. Augustine, Augustine discusses free will and predestination; he teaches that God orders all things while preserving human freedom. He proposes the idea of a slave killing his master because he is afraid of being tortured. A slave killing his master is not justified with using self-defense because killing someone is morally wrong and there are other ways in life of seeking justice, regardless of a person being afraid or other circumstances. Creon, St. Augustine, and ...