Antigone is a play written by Sophocles in or before 441 BC. Sophocles is a greek poet and a tragic dramatist, who wrote three great tragedies about the Theban mythology. Antigone is known as the first of these plays. The play Antigone shows conflict between the king and a woman. The play was written in Athens, a Greek city The ancient Greeks developed Democracy which gave people to have power on making decisions based on their own beliefs. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus is visualized as a tragic heroine
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scene from Sophocles’ plays Antigone has the two daughters of Oedipus, Antigone and Ismene are in deep conversation about the death of their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices. During the war of Thebes, the two brothers had killed each other on the battlefield since Polyneices would not accept Creon as their King. Therefore, Eteocles was lay to rest with honor in a combatant’s service. On the other hand, Polyneices was forbidden from being lay to rest by anyone. Creon who has now become King established
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ruled by Theseus. Oedipus is now blind and dressed in rags, and is being led by his daughter. A citizen of Colonus passes by the two strangers and tells them they need to move because they are on the sacred ground of the Furies. However, Oedipus believes that was prophesied that the grove is where he will find rest. As more citizens come, Oedipus asks them to send for Theseus because he is on a sacred mission and bears a great gift for the people. After the citizens learn who Oedipus is, they believe
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Tragedies If I compare “Jocasta” of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus with “Clytemnestra” and “Helen” of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and “Electra” of Euripides’ Electra, I see their roles as black and white. There is a great contrast between their characters and the roles they play in these tragedies. “Jocasta” seems to represent the typical Patriarchal society where men tend to dominate and women play a passive role. She does play a passive role in Oedipus Tyrannus as she is the queen who must
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Quran Norris English 102 AC106 Mrs. Stephenson 0Antigone Paper Being a part of a family forces one to have responsibilities and duties that are needed to be fulfilled. In Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Antigone, Antigone has the responsibility of being loyal to her brother, Polynices. Her intuition and strong will discourages her from listening to the power of the state, thus disobeying part of her family, to respect her immediate family. Her devotion leads to the destruction of Creon and herself
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Hawkins 1 Bethany Hawkins Shaver World Lit. 15 May 2014 Oedipus the King: Blind to His Own Fate In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus the King there are contradictory situations relating to the ability to see things literally compared to having vision symbolically: The oracle is blind, but can see Oedipus’ fate, Oedipus cannot see his own fate and thinks that he has avoided it at all costs,and Jocasta deceives herself into thinking that the prophecy is not true. This motif repeats again and again in this story and
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justice in the face of what is morally correct and divine. Punishment, conflict and pursuit of justice are major themes in both Sophocles Antigone and Measure for Measure. Antigone is laden with violent imagery; countless arguments causing conflict between Antigone and Creon as well as Creon and Haemon; and the blatant violence of the various murders and suicides present in the play. Moreover in Measure for Measure, is the conflict between justice and mercy, and whether justice and punishment would
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credited as one of the best works of Sophocles, ranked by most modern critics above Oedipus the King. There are many aspects of Antigone that make it the play critics love to ramble about. “Antigone must be received as the canon of ancient tragedy: no tragedy of antiquity that we possess approaches it in pure idealism, or in harmony of artistic development” says one critic named Berhardy. Tragedy is usually concerned with a person of great stature, a king or nobleman, who falls because of hubris
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Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy." Antagonist A character or force against which another character struggles. Creon is Antigone's antagonist in Sophocles' play Antigone; Teiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. Assonance The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in "I rose and told him of my woe." Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal
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is seen as perfect, a parent can do no wrong. As a child grows older, they start to see that their parents are in fact flawed and this can cause an inward conflict for the child. Psychology has done a lot of research about family relationships, especially the relationship between a mother and her son. Sigmund Freud himself came up with the Oedipus complex, which is when a boy has an attachment to the mother, which in turns results in aggressive and envious feelings toward
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