a format chart example to help you organize your ideas. If you want to write about Antigone and Ismene, just switch the names when you make your own chart. Antigone Vs. Creon |Antigone |Creon | |What is her argument against Creon? |What is his argument against Antigone? | |She believes that her brother, Polyneices, deserves to
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Jenni Howes Rode Global 3 6 September 2012 Escaping the Fates 1. With high power and arrogance it is easy to loose sight and fall to a harmatia but when one has done so they must realize and accept their wrongful actions. 2. Reason #1: With more experience than others it is easy to Sercombe to things such as wealth and power and Creon did just that. A. “Eteocles, who died as a man … is to be buried with full military honors … Polyneices, I say, is to have no burial” (1). 1
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Antigone Antigone is a very interesting Greek tragedy, full of death, love, and betrayal. The tragedy, Antigone, starts with the death of Antigone’s brothers. Both brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, died fighting each other in combat. Creon, the king of Thebes, has granted permission for Eteocles to have a proper burial, but not for Polynices. The Greeks at this time believed that without burial the person’s spirit would not be able to rest and would be a ghost for eternity. Antigone decided
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dominating physical characteristics? What causes them? Wealth? Age? Social condition? | He isn’t really a character that should need any dominating characteristics, I wouldn’t want him of a higher status than Creon or his mother, and he is equal to Antigone (before she is a dishonoured traitor). Of course he could show his wealth and social status over common folk, but he isn’t a character that is meant to be special in anyway. | What are you wearing? What does this show?Think about | Quite rich
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Antigone | Quote | Comments | Analysis | 1. "And now what is the proclamation that they tell of made lately by the commander, publicly,/to all people? Do you know it? Have you heard it?/Don't you notice when evils due to enemies/are headed towards those we love?"Line 8-12 | Antigone speak to Ismene about their brother Polyneices, that it is unfair to unbury him. Also she refers to the situation of the evil, cursed their father Oedipus who had been expelled outside from Thebes. | | 2
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Sophocles’ tragic play Antigone tells of the conflict between Antigone and King Creon. The conflict among Creon and Antigone leads to fall of the house of Creon. Creon is the major cause of this destruction which he brought upon himself. King Creon has been corrupted and fallen to the idea of power. A review of his actions proves that his ruling is based largely on family turmoil which is how the basis of this ruling and his subsequent actions in the play. Creon is the proclaimed king in the
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“ To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “Antigone” by Sophocles are both dramas having to do with justice, the main characters in both dramas are struggling to bring justice to a society or situation that was lacking. In Sophocles’ drama, Antigone was trying to bring justice by burying her brother Polyneices against the kings, Creon’s, orders. While in “To kill a mocking bird” Atticus is an attorney in a case where race is a major issue and he is trying to save Tom Robinson from being convicted
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In the novel Antigone, Antigone plays the role a very strong and independent women, “I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy.” As for Ismene, Antigone's sister, she plays the good and responsible girl, so the exact opposite of Antigone, “Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.” Moving on to the men in the novel, we start with Creon. Creon is a very demanding king and also very selfish in a way, “The laws of the gods are mighty, and a man must serve serve them to the
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Characters in Antigone has to choose between society or their conscience. Sometimes society is right, and sometimes their conscience is right. Either way, there still is going to be an effect on the character’s life. Antigone characters have difficult choices, and are in a tough situation. Most of the characters choose their conscience, which leads to a lot of deaths. Creon has a difficult choice to make, burying Polyneices, or not burying him. Creon doesn't bury Polyneices. He picks his conscience
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Many people believe millions of people complete goals for himself/herself and by their self, but there are actually a large amount of people who only accomplished their goal because of someone else. In the fictional story: “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” by Rudyard Kipling; the non-fictional memoir: “The Other Side of the Sky,” by Farah Ahmedi and Tanim Ansary; and the poem: “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert W. Service, all three of the main characters learned they could not finish their goals alone. Basically
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