Creon shows that here he is too proud to change his decision for his own son even if he made the wrong choice. ... Her reasoning is set by her belief that if someone were not given a proper burial, that a person would not be accepted into heaven. ... She chooses the divine command over the human compulsion and rejects life with its companies for the absolutes of deaths. ... Even though this law was broken by Antigone, Creon was very narrow-minded with his decision to sentence her to death. ... Sometimes it is not possible or feasible to obey and follow both of these sets of laws, unwritten or ...

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When the first death happens they change their minds. ... She is heartbroken over the death of Haemon. ... He is proud of the way Creon is handling business. ... Falling Action "When Eurydice found out about her son's death she ran off. ... Pride is good when it does not bring suffering to the proud. ...

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Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. ... It started with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. ... Oedipus was in shock and could not accept this. ... The falling action begins with Iocaste's death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. ... On the other hand, Iocaste chooses death to end her problem. ...

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Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. ... It started with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. ... Oedipus was in shock and could not accept this. ... The falling action begins with Iocaste's death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. ... On the other hand, Iocaste chooses death to end her problem. ...

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Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. ... It started with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. ... Oedipus was in shock and could not accept this. ... The falling action begins with Iocaste's death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. ... On the other hand, Iocaste chooses death to end her problem. ...

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He doest not learn his lesson until the end of the play when he speaks respectfully of the death that is continually hurting him. ... Haemon then tells his father that the public does not believe that Antigone deserves the punishment of death. ... Haemon calls Creon stubborn and proud. ... Socrates has argued that one must obey one's superior, someone who is relevantly wiser than oneself, the god in ethical matters, in any situation in which one's only reason not to obey is that obedience puts one at risk of death. ... Then the court orders him to abandon philosophy on pain of death....

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Despite Creons warnings she buries him with honor and is captured by Creon and put to death. ... While Antigone has gained her self-respect by clearly and publicly stating her beliefs and her loyalties, (in the words of Sophocles, Antigone has regained the "proud fullness of her being-. ... We see her cause her own death by resisting Creon, and indirectly, the death of Haimon. ... You would not help me, and I will not have you help me. ... Ironically Antigone's high morality results in more suffering: her own death and the death of Haimon. ...

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They were the first democratic society in a tumultuous world of kings and emperors, and they were proud of their ideology. ... Agamemnon is a great warrior, but not a great family man. ... The chorus predict his downfall: "The gods fail not to mark those who have killed many. ... It is not that he is a bad man; his motive is both self-less and selfish. ... Her reactions illustrate how easy it is to upset a nation's stability when its entire system of rule can be overthrown by the deaths of a king and his children. ...

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He proclaimed his name proudly as if he was a god, "I would not have you speak through messengers, and therefore I have come hear you-I, Oedipus who bear the famous name" (7-9) When Creon first appears in Oedipus the King, Creon is shown to be separate from the citizens of Thebes and not wanting any type of power but, when Oedipus life disintegrates, Creon takes to the throne immediately. ... Oedipus did not understand. ... Was he not able to solve Tiresias's riddles because his arrogance wouldn't allow him to, or did he recognize the answers immediately, his vanity not allowing him...

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Thomas Gould states, "We are not "free," and we cannot blame anyone for anything: a man's character is made for him, not by him, and his every act is already determined before he is born" (52). ... (OR 1182-1186) The power of fate is further emphasized as Oedipus is able to escape his ordered death, and he begins his controlled life in a world where he can still kill his father and marry his mother. ... At a feast, a drunken man tells Oedipus that Polybus is not his real father. ... There are times when a feeling comes to the surface that even the gods cannot - or must not - influenc...

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• Grade Level: High School