Fate is why Oedipus winds up killing his own father and eventually ended up marrying his own mother and then later on he found out about all of this. ... The fate of the two brothers winds up ultimately killing both of them on opposite sides during the war. ... Antigone was a very religious person and the acceptance of her brother by the gods was very important to her. ... Antigone shows her loyalty to her beliefs to give her brother a proper burial even if it is going to cost her own life. ... She stood up to the highest of powers so she could honor her brother, knowing the consequence could ...

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This same perspective is found in Sophocles" play Antigone where Antigone, the protagonist, goes against the State due to the moral obligation she has by the Gods to her family. ... She was morally bound by the gods to bury her brother so that he could reach heaven. ... She was willing to give her life to uphold the cause, which was to bury her brother (part of her kin). ... One perspective deals with that of viewing Polynices as a traitor, and the other deals with viewing him as a brother a part of kin. ... After scrutinizing over the plays Apology, by Plato, and Antigone, by Sophocles, it wa...

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The main conflict in the play is Antigone's desire to give her late brother a proper burial, even though Creon will not allow it. ... In the end she dies a martyr to protect the burial right that were stripped from her brother by Creon. ... This is another attempt by Sophocles to make the audience believe that Creon and his ideals are offensive and unjust, while showing Antigone to be righteous and just in her statement to Creon about her deceased brother "All the same, these rites are due to the underworld" (20). ... With respect to the audience's prior knowledge, Sophocles plays o...

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Verbal irony is found within the conversation between Oedipus and Teiresias. ... The dramatic irony is found mainly in the beginning of the play, before Oedipus unravels the dark secrets of his life. ... Irony of situation is found through out the whole play. ... He is the father and brother of his children. ... It is also ironic that within almost the entire play Oedipus stands beside the answers he seeks, like when Teiresias hinted to him in lines 440-445 that the murderer killed his father, married his mother, and is brother to his children. ...

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Creon Creon is the brother to locasta, Captain-general of the army, and successor to the throne. ... When he found out Antigone's sentence, he tries to change his father's mind. ... Falling Action "When Eurydice found out about her son's death she ran off. She was found by the altar with a knife in her. ... In the story Antigone buries her brother. ...

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"After a painful search I found one cure: I acted at once. I sent Creon, my wife's own brother, to Delphi- Apollo the Prophet's oracle- to learn what I might do or say to save our city" (Sophocles 601). ... Tiresias foresees the tragedy that is to be revealed and although hesitant in bringing the truth forward, he eventually reveals that the murderer is a native Theban who is son and husband to his wife, as well as brother and father to his own children, and the murderer of his own father. ... It comes to light that Oedipus was not the son of the king of Corinth but had been found w...

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He stepped up to be a new king his first duty was to decide which of the brothers were to receive a proper burial. ... Creon claims that he will kill the perpetrator once he or she is found. Well, indeed the perpetrator was found, and it was found to be Antigone, Creon's niece, and a woman. ... Creon has almost been moved by his son's claim that the city is on Antigone's side, but it is not until after he is awakened by Tiresias that Creon realizes that he was wrong in punishing Antigone for burying her brother. ...

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As the night dawns, Orestes is approached by a messenger that his father has been found murdered. ... It ends with Electra asking her brother, was it worth having a life full of suffering by avenging their father by killing their mother. ...

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In order to characterize Antigone as a heroine , it is important to study Antigone's early childhood, which displays the origins of the characteristics found in her that make her a feminist. ... When the king denies her brother a proper burial and makes it illegal for anyone to bury him in Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone decides it is up to her to take justice into her own hands and give him a proper burial. ...

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