In the play, “Antigone” involves a young girl named Antigone who, was trying to achieve something that was against all odds. While in the play “She Stoops to Conquer” Miss Castle would try to achieve her goal by trickery and her wits to get what she wants. But the way Antigone did it, she would try everything to prove her point, even by standing up to the authority to risk her life. But Miss Castle would do this by deceiving her crush Young Marlow to fall in love with her.
The first thing Antigone did to rise against all odds by disobeying the King Creon her uncle by burying her brother. “ has not Ceron to the tomb preferred One of our brothers ,..’’(Antigone 2). She did that because in that time the Greeks believed that it was a right by the gods to be buried by one of your loved ones. She would do that in tho the
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When she did it she most likely wanted the whole world know because she told her sister Ismene go tell the world. “Tell it, tell it!” (Antigone 4). When she told her sister Ismene to spread word about her burying her brother so Creon will know so she can stand up to him. When she finally buried her brother she did it twice because she caught the second time and when Creon ask Antigone did you bury your brother she replied so confidently yes. “I say I did ; I deny it not.”(Antigone 17). Then Ceron asked why did you disobey my decree by burying your brother. Antigone replied by saying, “Because not Zeus who ordered it, Nor Justice, dweller with the Nether Gods, Gave such a law to men; ; nor I deem Your ordinance of so much binding force,...”(Antigone 17). Antigone told Ceron right to his face I won't obey your law because your law goes against the Gods laws. During that time
I am so afraid for you." (Ismene, 88) "I will not ask you, or if I do, you will not come." (Antigone, 89) Antigone's decision to defy the king's decree and bury her brother represents an act of civil disobedience, which challenges the authority of the state and raises questions about the limits of state power. Antigone's actions also represent the tension between personal beliefs and state authority, as she believes that her moral duty to give her brother a proper burial overrides the king's decree.
This sentiment can be seen in Emond’s Imagining the Afterlife in Greek Religion. Antigone also believed that the gods themselves ordered that she give Polyneices his burial rites and told Creon as much when she declared “[no] man could frighten me into taking on [the] gods’ penalty for breaking such a law” (Sophocles 19). However, Creon did have his reasons for refusing burial to Polyneices, and some can be traced to these same funeral traditions. He believed that Polyneices “was killing and plundering” while Eteocles “defended [their] land” (Sophocles 22). If Polyneices truly had turned traitor against his nation, he would fit the criteria to be thrown into a pit to rot and be devoured by birds, as Graves described in “The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks.”
(S. 2, pg. 1083). Sophocles wanted the audience to know that Antigone’s actions were right in the eyes of the gods and the citizens of Thebes. But they were against Creon and his laws. Because of that, Antigone was forced to give up everything including her own life so she could bury her beloved brother.
Antigone is the best representation of a tragic hero in this play. In the opinion of others, one may say that Antigone has a tragedy that is more complex rather than simple. The importance of having a complex tragedy is the more difficult and hard this said persons woe is, the more anthropomorphic and relatable this will be to us humans. In the play Antigone, she plans to go against Creon’s rules and bury her beloved brother who died for reasons that she believes to be honorary. As Antigone states,”That must be your excuse, I suppose.
Antigone is the daughter of the late king Oedipus, and Creon is the king of Corinth. The conflict that these two face is the burial of Polyneices, who was Antigone’s deceased brother. Creon was not allowing Polynices to be buried, because he had fought against Athens. To Creon, this was correct: “And yet you dared to overstep these laws?” (Sophocles Line 458)
In the scene in which Creon will not allow her brother to be buried. This goes against her personal beliefs she confronts Creon when she says “if I had allowed my own mothers son to rot, an unburied corpse that would have been an agony.” Creon wouldn’t allow Antigone brother to be buried even tho Antigone felt it was the right thing to do. Antigone is talking to Ismene about burying her brother but Ismene tells her to keep the idea a secret but Antigone disagrees and says “But I know I’ll please the ones I’m duty bound to please.
Sophocles’ Antigone committed civil disobedience by burying her brother, Polynices, against King Kreon’s order. Antigone’s defiance was solely based on her religious views. Furthermore, Antigone knew that her disobedience would lead to the
Antigone thought it was unjust to let her brother go without a proper burial. She took the power of freedom and her free will and made the situation “just” in her eyes.
She broke creons law so her brother Polyneices could enter the underworld because any who is not buried must forever Wonder outside the gates of the underworld and it's not allowed inside. Antigones motives in burying her brother were glory and hubris.
Do Not Ignore the Laws of the Gods Loyalty to the state should not undermine a person’s loyalty to their gods. When the king challenges or ignores the authority of the gods, he is headed for failure. Sophocles trumpets this message throughout his tragic play, Antigone. After Polyneices rebelled against Thebes and killed his brother Eteocles in battle, King Creon decreed that a traitor to the state cannot be buried.
In the classic play by Sophocles, Antigone is a tragic story of the bold Antigone who defied her uncle, King Creonʻs, edict by burying her brother, Polyneices, who died attacking the city of Thebes, trying to take the power away from their brother, Eteocles, who refused to share the throne with Polyneices. Even though Antigone knew that going against Creon and burying her brother would not end well for her, she still choose to risk her life to do what is right. After being caught breaking the law, Antigone is appointed to be locked away, isolated in a cave until she dies, but she hangs herself at the end. At the same time, things for Creon are not looking good, as everyone around him seems to be against him in his decision for punishing Antigone. Everyone Creon cares about kills themselves from a curse that is put on Creon for not following the Godsʻ laws.
She needed to prove a point by herself and didn’t want anyone else involved. Antigone is a selfish character who only wants what is best for herself and doesn’t think about the repercussions of her actions and the effects that they will have on those around her. When Antigone decides to go ahead with her decision to burry her brother, she alone is engaging in an act of civil disobedience toward the king directly, but quite frankly she doesn’t care. Her character has little regard for powerful people especially when they have different views than her own. Antigone, as well as everyone in her kingdom, knows what the wishes of Creon are in regards to her brother, but going along with her characteristic of disrespect toward authority, she breaks the rules anyways knowing that there will be consequences for her actions.
Antigone refuses to betray her brother and thus breaks the law by burying Polyneikes. In doing so, she steps past what was considered normal
Antigone wants to give a proper burial to her brother, so Antigone had a conflict with Creon. She is the one who hides the polynices death body, in spite of Creon’s strict rules and regulation. It is hard to fault someone who is just following their malicious tradition. The original Greek audience, however, would have supported her and feared Creon’s
Antigone’s tragic flaw is her love for her family. In the play Antigone, Creon creates a law stating that one of Antigone’s brothers, Polyneices, must not be buried for he was a traitor while the other, Eteocles, is buried with honors. “Antigone- Hasn’t Creon graced one with all the rights, disgraced the other? Eteocles, they say, has been given full military honors, rightly so-Creon’s laid him in the Earth and he goes with glory down among the dead.