Eight enters a modified horse stance. His left leg bent 45° is in front of his right leg that is shoulder width apart. His left side of his body is aimed at his opponent's. The right side is pointed 90° to the right. Both feet are resting in the ground, and his body is evenly distributed across his body making him balanced.
Antigone, niece to the high king Creon, has gone rogue. The day before, Our high king, Creon, decreed Polynices would not be buried. Polynices was a traitor to the throne, and was properly punished as such. Antigone, angry with this decree, buried her brother against the king’s wishes. The burial that took place was a simple one, but just enough that Polynices soul would be at rest.
Antigone defies the law, buries her brother, and is caught. When Creon locks her away in prison, she kills herself. The author applies many relative aspects to contemporary living. He includes, pride, stubbornness, mostly through creon and antigone and fate which deals with Antigone's whole family line.
Antigone is a tragedy play written by Sophocles. In the story, Antigone, a young woman, had requested permission from Creon, the king at the time, to have a proper burial for her brother, Polyneices; even though he was a traitor and the law forbids mourning for him. Creon had denied Antigone's request for the burial of her brother, however, Antigone had still carried out the burial. Unfortunately, she had been caught in her act, by the king’s guard, and brought before Creon.
Antigone, his main character, is depicted as a defiant, determined, stubborn woman ends up doomed to her fate by the her act of free will. The situation begins with Antigone being outraged by her uncle’s choice in giving her brother, Eteocles, the heroic burial and not Polyneices, her other brother. Creon, Antigone’s uncle and ruler of Thebes, commands everyone to leave Polyneices rotting as the result of a traitor. Of course, Antigone defies his order by burying her brother in broad daylight. She encourages Ismene, her sister, to join her.
One way of how Creon represents the problematic nature of man-made laws is through his character. One characteristic of Creon that leads to his problematic man-made laws is that he is ruthless. Although Polyneices is said to have brought war on the State, he is still considered family. Even then he still shows no pity toward Polyneices. Creon leaves the boys body out for shame and to be eaten by wild animals.
Below is the description of the major characters of this play. Antigone is the shocking courageous woman of the play. In the first snippets of the play, Antigone is restricted to her brilliant sister Ismene. Ismene: Antigone's last surviving kin, Ismene is the foil for her stronger sister.
Antigone is the main character, and gets into a conflict that determines her fate. She is defined as the tragic hero because it is her tragedy and she has the tragic flaw of pride. This pride of her gets her into
The Tragedy of Antigone Have you ever been torn between two life changing decisions? You may be able to decide right from wrong, but that is not the case in Antigone. Written by Sophocles, Antigone is a tragic literary work about a young girl who fatally follows her beliefs. She risks her life to bury her brother for the sake of the gods.
The play, Antigone, is a tragedy written by the Greek poet Sophocles. A common theme among tragedies is that they have a tragic hero, and Antigone is no different. The tragic hero of this poem is Creon, the King of Thebes. Creon is faced with the difficult task of punishing his niece, Antigone. She has broken one of his laws stating that no one is to give proper burial rites to Polyneices, Antigone’s brother, because he tried to overthrow Creon.
Antigone is a story about social and family relations that serves as an example to the reader of how emotions can overpower reason. Sticking to one thought process even when circumstances change can be dangerous, especially when dealing with life threatening situations. In the case of Antigone, the stressful relations and lack of logic used by the characters are used as a lesson to the audience showing what can happen when emotions get out of hand. There are two scenes in the story which best exemplify this.
Antigone’s actions are motivated by her allegiance to her family, moral conscience, and religion amid Creon’s political injustice and tyranny. Antigone’s actions motivate her to demand Ismene to prove whether she is “a true sister or a traitor to your family” (26-27). Antigone maintains loyalty to her brother despite his actions which threatened Thebes. Her inability to bear the thought of her brother’s corpse being picked apart by animals and not being honored with proper funeral rites forces her to act. Antigone’s fierce allegiance to her family is laid bare as she is willing to sacrifice her life to honor her brother and defy the law in an act that she believes is morally just.
Jaanvi Shah Mr. Eyre English 9 March, 2015 Literary Analysis of Antigone John Foster says, “pride comes before fall.” As the action of the Sophocles 's Antigone unfolds, it is clear that the protagonist Creon has all the six characteristics of a tragic hero. Teiresias interactions with Creon help to demonstrate three of those typical traits: Creon’s noble stature, his tragic flaw of having pride and arrogance, and his free choice that makes his downfall his own fault. Creon, the King of Thebes, accords with Aristotle’s theory of a tragic hero beginning as powerful distinguished and important person.
This play is about two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, who both wanted to be king of Thebes, the two brothers, fight for the crown but both dead, as a result their uncle Creon becomes the kind of Thebes, ordering that Eteocles must be bury since he defended the city, leaving Polynices to rot, declared that who ever tried to bury Polynices should must be kill. Antigone sister of the two brothers does not agree with what the king ordered, she believes that both of her brothers deserve to be bury, so secretly she bury her brother Polynices but she gets caught. Antigone its sent to the cave to die of starvation after the kings finds out.
What “tragic ideas” do we see expressed in Sophocles’ drama? Answer with reference to the play Antigone. ‘Tragedy is the representation of a serious and complete set of events, having a certain size, with embellished language used distinctly in the various parts of the play, the representation being accomplished by people performing and not by narration, and through pity and fear achieving the catharsis of such emotion’- Aristotle, Poetics, Chapter 6. The play “Antigone” by Sophocles displays many qualities that make it a great tragedy.
