In many novels, plays and stories, politics plays an important role in the story. Most of the time, politics are in place to bring peace and justice to a nation by creating laws. However, politics could also have negative effects on the population. More often than not, politics have a negative effect on the nation as is the case in the play Antigone and the book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. Politics create conflicts that cause chaos, sadness and death in both Antigone and Kundera stories. In general, the story ends in a very sad manner. This situation occurs in two ways; first, politics destroys the life of those who are against it; secondly, it destroys the life of those who defend the law.
The first role of politics is to eliminate anyone who is against it. In the play Antigone, the main character dies because she acted against the laws that Creon created. Antigone believed that she was strong enough to defeat Creon and his laws. She broke one of his laws by burying her brother. Seeing as she had lots of confidence, she accused Creon that he was wrong. This led Creon to get even angrier and sentenced Antigone to death. Seeing that her final moment was approaching, Antigone ended up trying to defend herself from her punishment when she realized that she had lost the case.
"What law of mighty gods have I transgressed? Why look to the heavens anymore, tormented as I am? Very well: if this is the pleasure of the gods, once I suffer I will know that I was wrong. But if these men are wrong, let them suffer nothing worse than they mete out to me- 1.
Here, we can observe Freud's theory about the need for self-preservation and it's disruption by social anxiety. At first, Antigone did not care if she was sentenced to death because all she wanted was to bury her brother and she thought that she could overpower Creon. But at the end, she was desperately trying to convince Creon and his councils to let her free.
Conflict is the central struggle in a play or novel. ... This changes later on in the play when she was faced with death. ... This conflict is significant to the whole plot of the play. ... There are many conflicts throughout this play, each one leading to the other. ... The conflict also shows character traits in Antigone as well as Creon and is essential to the whole plot of the play. ...
In Antigone, by Sophocles, Antigone is the tragic hero of the play, rather than Creon. ... Antigone is indeed the tragic hero of this play, not Creon, because Creon did not die a martyr, he simply suffered. To suggest that Creon is a tragic hero is to totally misread Antigone, and to totally miss the point of the play. Sophocles named the play after Antigone, which is no small thing. ... If Creon were really the tragic hero of the play, he would have been one from the start, whereas Antigone, from her first appearance in the play to her death, dies for a cause Creon suffers as a fool. ...
In the play, "Antigone," the main character Antigone goes against all authority in an effort to give her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. It is these courageous actions and her unwavering stoicism which truly make her an ideal heroine throughout the play. ... Throughout the play, Antigone shows that she is quite different from other women of her time, and expresses her genuine femininity. ... Antigone has no respect for authority. ... "We can't live by Antigone's alone, but if we have no Antigones within us we are spiritually barren" (Cornell). ...
However, in the play Antigone, Antigone goes against the beliefs and defies the powerful tradition of male domination. In the play, Antigone's life was filled with pain and sorrow. ... Even after all of this, Antigone had even more pain to deal with. ... Antigone didn't fear death, but instead faced it with great bravery and strength. ... That is why Antigone is such an influential character in the play. ...
The Antigone Essay Through "Antigone", the play, Sophocles lets it be known that family is more important than authority. ... Since family is more important to Sophocles than authority, the play gets complex with Creon, and him wanting to choose authority over his family. Antigone and Haemon also play big roles in demonstrating how they want their family more than anything. ... Antigone was Haemon's true love. ... Antigone played a role of a person that stood up for what she believed was right. ...
We can relate the situation of Antigone to present day problems. ... Antigone is portrayed sympathetically in the play, but at the root of all of the drama comes her one action that she chose to do and by performing that pivital act of disobeying the law and burying her brother she tragically changed her future and the future of others. ... The play percieves Creon as a man who loved his family and I believe he didnt intend to hurt anyone except the person responsible for committing the crime. ... Creon is played off in a sympathetic way, but I do feel sympathetic for him. ... T...
The importance of divine law versus the adherence to the laws of the state is a major theme explored throughout the play, Antigone. ... Antigone, inspired by divine law, makes the decision to bury her dead brother's body; both she and Creon provide justification throughout the play as to why they chose to act in the ways they did. ... Creon asks Antigone if this is true. ... He also wishes to validate his choice to punish Antigone. ... I believe Antigone's act was morally correct. ...
The classic Greek play Antigone, written by Sophocles illustrates the traits that the quintessential tragic hero displays. Antigone stands poised at the river separating herself from civil disobedience. ... Antigone's morals render her unable to see her tragic flaw. ... Antigone impels Creon by defying his order, and seals the fate of her life. ... Antigone's convictions bear a burden on her that she is not strong enough to lift. ...
Antigone is not from a normal family. ... Especially Antigone and Creon. ... At the end of the play Antigone ended up committing suicide. ... Later in the play Creon's wife kills herself. ... Creon probably found authority more important than family, but that changed at the end of the play. ...