Along with many other men who also died in battle, her brother did not get a proper burial because of King Creon’s laws. Because of this, Antigone decides to give her brother a proper burial so he can rest in peace. For her actions, Antigone is sentenced to death by Creon. Because of their selfish pride, Antigone and Creon don’t see how alike they really are. Antigone and Creon are both trying to fight for something they both believe in.
Famous epics, including Gilgamesh and Odysseus, contain characters that are praised for their loyalty, courage, and willingness to stand up for themselves. However, in the drama, Antigone, one of the central characters, Antigone, is criticized for having these very same virtues. Both of Antigone’s brothers are killed simultaneously during battle. Eteokles is given a proper burial and Polyneikes’ body is left to rot outside of the city walls. Antgone tells her sister, Ismene, “I’ll bury Polyneikes myself.
Human beings all have one thing in common- we die, we are “thanatoi”; the dying ones. It is a beautiful concept that unites all of humanity, yet it also engenders the questions- why are we all condemned to die? What are we all dying for? Many people need no further elaboration on the topic of death, other than that it is mankind’s fate to die. However, ancient scholars like Homer, and Sophocles capitalized on their need for answers.
Just like any two books, there are similarities and differences between Antigone and Siddhartha. One difference, for example, is that Antigone is willing to take her own life just to put her dead brother’s body to rest, while Siddhartha knows when to stop and can determine whether or not it is worth doing certain things to achieve enlightenment. Another difference is that Siddhartha has assistance from people like Kamala and the ferryman, while Antigone is largely on her own. Siddhartha has people to talk to when in need, but Antigone does not. On the other hand, one similarity between the two books is that both Antigone and Siddhartha are able to overcome obstacles.
Antigone and John Q are both alike in many ways. For example how they both stand up against the law for what they believe is the right thing, they both own up to their law breaking, and they both get in trouble anyway even though other people agree with what they have done. In Antigone, the main character Antigone’s two brothers are killed at war. While one is allowed to get a proper burial however her other brother cannot be buried because it’s against the law.
Antigone is the daughter Of Oedipus Rex, the old king. There are ways in this story that antigone is determined and also stubborn. Basically Antigone had a brother name Polynices and a brother named Eurydice and and Polynices died while fight his brother and at that time there was a king named Creon, he did not like Polynices but he did like Eurydice, so then Creon had a burial for Eurydice but not for Polynices, therefore he could not go to Heaven, so now creon made a law that said that no one could bury Polynices. When Antigone heard this she was disgusted therefore she said that she must bury her brother.
Her actions, which go against King Kreon’s decree, speak volumes to what is most important to her- respecting her family. This rebellion is easy to sympathize with because she goes about rejecting an unjust order in a peaceful and respectable way. Antigone is a young, yet experienced character in the play. She is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who share one of the cruelest and most twisted stories in Greek mythology. On top of that, her brothers Eteokles and Polyneices killed each other in battle, over a land dispute.
Both Creon and Antigone both had views that they believed were right and they both defended their decisions until the end.
Throughout time, people have always fought for freedom and the chance to express what they believe regardless of who or what stands in their way. Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Antigone symbolize key figures who stood up for what they believed in, fighting for the good life for both themselves and the community around them. Although both cause conflict, protest unjust laws to achieve change, and approach a comparable situation of fighting injustice in society similarly, they had different stakes had they failed. The magnitude of the stakes differ from one another but in both cases, their stakes and what they stand to lose justify the actions they take, as they are not only trying to prevent further conflict but also trying to teach future
In the play Antigone and the movie Dead Poets Society, the consequences of pressure, control, and a lack of understanding in father-son relationships are illustrated through the mental health of Haimon and Neil. Playwright, Sophocles and screenwriter, Tom Schulman are able to effectively demonstrate the immense pressure that can be put on children in father-son relationships through Mr. Perry and Creon’s interactions with their sons. When Mr. Nolan speaks to Mr. Perry regarding his high expectations for Neil, Mr Perry addresses his son, claiming that “ he won’t disappoint us. Right Neil?” (Schulman).
For example, Antigone decides that she is to bury her brother and she then gets in trouble with the government had forbidden anyone from burying her brother. This would lead Antigone to bring up the fact that “It wasn't Zeus” who had told her that she could no longer bury her brother Polyneices. This would bring it back to the law the gods had set that it would be a dishonor to someone who had died to not bury their body. This would lead Antigone to fight for the law to be upheld since Creon the dictator wasn't a god. Meanwhile, Martin Luther King Jr. is fighting for a new law to get passed and is pushing for it with the support of other people.
She has a heroic and courageous personality. Throughout her quest to bury Polyneices, Antigone encounters many hindrances along the way. The death of her father Oedipus led to her greatest disputant being given power, her Uncle Creon. He would show her no mercy for breaking his laws, until it is too late. Even when her sister Ismene states “Our own death would be if we should go against Creon And do what he has forbidden!
In the story Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone has two brothers, but both were treated differently when they died. Eteocles died peacefully with him being buried in dirt while Polyneices was just lying there to die in a terrible way. Antigone finds a way to bury her brother, as she goes to bury her brother she gets caught, it didn’t go the way she wanted it to. Throughout the whole story that came with ups and downs, Sophocles tries to show that how the family ties with Antigone wanting to bury her brother, Antigone arguing with Creon, and the argument between father and son, Creon and Haemon. Antigone wants to bury her brother so that he can die in peace and not die without honor.
Conscience is an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. Society is the the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. It’s your own decision if you want to follow your heart or the people around you. Conscience is the “gut feeling” that we are told to follow. In the story Antigone,it was a difficult road for anyone to walk when following your conscience.
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.
