Antigone herself is one of the most stubborn characters. ... Almost every character in Antigone displays excessive emotion. ... Throughout Antigone, we see that Haemon has extremely strong feelings for Antigone. ... After Antigone and Haemon die, Sophocles summarizes this rather well. ... In Antigone, many of the characters face a tragic demise. ...
Creon and Antigone are both "victims" of tragic flaw. ... Creon's downfall began at the very beginning of Antigone. ... Following that, he send Antigone to spend her entire life in a prison-like cave. ... Antigone is moreso of a victim in this story. ... Nonetheless, Antigone suffers more than Creon. ...
While reading the Greek play, Antigone, sadness and despair came to mind. ... The lost of loved ones was due to the stubbornness of a tyrant king, Kreon, who refused to give Antigone's brother, Polyneices, a proper burial. If Kreon chose to obey the Gods and gave Polyneices a proper burial, or if Antigone decided to follow the laws, heartbreak and death could have been prevented. ... I found the Greek play, Antigone, interesting to read. ...
In the play Antigone the playwright Sophocles presents Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero in the character King Creon. ... Creon's hubris is first evident when he fails to acknowledge the will of the Gods after finding out Antigone has buried Polyneices. Creon argues with his son Haimon who feels that it is wrong to punish Antigone for she went against the law because of her strong ethics and feels that it is her moral obligation. ... One critic states that "Antigone has her revenge when Creon falls into the infancy of human evolution, back into kinship while mourning over his s...
Identify the tragic hero from Antigone. ... Based on what you have read in Antigone, what is Sophocles trying to teach his audience about a human's ability to control his/her fate? ... Society Characters in Antigone must choose between following what society says is the right thing to do and following what they believe in their hearts to be the right thing to do. ... In Antigone, identify the difficult choices the characters make and analyze the effects that these choices have on the characters' lives. ... Using Antigone, analyze how acting on emotions (jealousy, suspicion, pride, ...
There is still an immense debate on who is, in fact, the true tragic hero in Sophocles" Antigone. Many think that the tragic hero is Antigone because the play does really bear her name. ... Creon thinks by making an example of Antigone's execution, everybody would become scared and not try to break his laws, and it works for awhile. ... Antigone asks Creon, "What more do you want than my death?" ... To sum up, Creon is the true tragic hero in Antigone. ...
In the play Antigone, Sophocles at first portrays Creon as a respected leader who formulates a rational basis for his laws and punishments, and has a generally positive reputation among the people of Thebes. ... It is this manner that Creon can be seen as the tragic character in the play Antigone. ... He dismissed Haimon's love for Antigone as petty and immaterial, and he refused to believe that Antigone's dead brother deserved a proper burial. ... His hubris is the root cause of his refusal to effectively deal with situations and the reason he dismisses the importance of Haimon&#...
Sophocles' Antigone and Arthur Miller's All My Sons both fit into this category. ... He also rejected Antigone's beliefs towards what she had done. ... Nevertheless, they do not mean that Antigone is tragic in the classical Greek sense; rather they just mean that Antigone got a bad lot that she didn't deserve. ... This leaves Creon as the only possible tragic figure in Antigone. ... Antigone could not be a tragedy without Creon; Antigone herself doesn't make much of a tragic figure. ...
In the plays Antigone and Hamlet we see this quality. ... This quality is only present in the play Antigone. ... This quality is only present in the play Antigone. ... In Antigone, the tragic hero is Creon. ... Antigone and Hamlet have the same catharsis. ...
Also, since Antigone disobeyed the law as well, because of Creon's weak character, he sends Antigone to her death also. ... This is a totally different idea when we take a look at Antigone. ... The story shows the reader that we have one good character, Antigone, and one evil character, Creon. Overall, we see that neither Creon nor Antigone were good or bad, according to Aristotle's quote because of the fact that Antigone chose the wrong way to make her problems better and Creon tried to take over and demand to much, therefore there is no good or bad, just weakness. ...
In the plays, Oedipus and Antigone, by Sophocles, the character Creon best portrays a tragic hero as defined by Aristotle. ... But I will do it; I will not fight destiny" (Antigone 854, l. 92-94; 101-102). ... Here you see the father murdering, the murdered son surely a god has crushed me beneath the hugest weight of heaven" (Antigone 858-859). ... (Antigone 859). ... Fate has brought all my pride to a thought of dust" (Antigone 860 l. 135-138). ...
Some examples of common tragedies are Romeo and Juliet and Antigone. ... The rules of tragedy, according to Aristotle, are that all tragedies must include a chorus with three functions, the tragic hero must go through discovery and reversal stages, and the audience must go through catharsis; this can be applied to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Sophocles' is Antigone". ... Also in the play Antigone, the chorus serves the same purpose. ... As for Antigone, Creon is considered to be the tragic hero. ... There is also a catharsis with the audience in the play...
Hegel thinks that Sophocles' Antigone is a perfect example of a tragedy. ... For example, Antigone was caught between doing the right thing from the religious point of view (burial of her dead brother) and doing the right thing from the point of view of law (obeying the king's orders). ...
In most cases the protagonist's suffering is so severe that he is destroyed by it, and very often the protagonist's entire destruction is made explicit in his death (Antigone, for example). Characteristic of the tragic catastrophe is the fact that not only the protagonist comes to be destroyed, but very often innocent people are also involved in the tragic happenings and lose their lives (for example, Creon's son and wife in "Antigone".) ...
