In the play “Antigone”, by Sophecles, the main character Antigone finds herself having to overcome an obstacle that is beyond the King Creon’s understanding. Creon’s demand was that Antigone’s brother, Polyneices, not receive a burial because he is considered a traitor to the city. However, Antigone worships a higher God than the mortal Creon or ...
Sophocles’ play Antigone demonstrates how his players are character types representative of certain concepts. The main characters, Antigone and Creon, represent either idealism or pragmatism respectively, and are completely devoid of compromise. Idealism is the act of envisioning things in an ideal form and pursuing that ideal. This concept applies to Antigone, her belief in ...
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” Karl Marx says in his Communist Manifesto (34). Money talks. Everything else can be put aside, the simple and unfortunate truth is that money talks. The common man will always be looking for a way out of his downtrodden or disadvantaged state. ...
In the Greek play Antigone, we are faced with a conflict between religious or moral law vs. state or human law, represented by the equally proud and stubborn Antigone (the rebel) and Creon (king or state ruler). Antigone considers god’s decrees and her own family duties towards her two brothers more important than any of ...
In the article Character and Plot in the Antigone by Norman W. DeWitt, he argues that Antigone is manifested as a martyr; however a martyr cannot be a hero. DeWitt notes that Antigone is ready to accept the consequences of defying her king Creon. In fact she views her death as a reward, by looking ...
Cats are only pregnant for about two months, which is quite short compared to other mammals. For cats, giving birth as early as the 57th day or as late as the 65th day are not uncommon. The mother cat (called a queen by cat breeders) soon goes into heat after the birth of her kittens, ...
There is a popular saying that claims, “well behaved women do not make history.” Though not necessarily true, it does apply to the heroines of the plays Medea by Euripides and Antigone by Jean Anouilh. In both Medea and Antigone, the main character is a woman who rebels against authority in the name of her ...
The Greek play writer, Sophocles, wrote over 120 plays in his lifetime. Today, only seven of those remain, including the Oedipus trilogy. Oedipus is said to have brought a curse onto his house, and I think that he did. I stand reveled at last- cursed in by birth, cursed in marriage…” (Oedipus ll. 1308-1309). He ...
In classic Greek literature, the deities of the period were often represented in various different manners, from insignificant to much more substantial. Minor roles might simply have consisted of a character or chorus mentioning a particular god in speech, possibly by impulse, or insinuations throughout a play that the gods were actively involved in current ...
Jean Anouilh’s Antigone attempts to escape fate just like her famous father does, but her fate is not the singular, individualized fate of Oedipus; Anouilh recreates Antigone’s story to make her a symbol of universal fate and in line with contemporary philosophic thought. Oedipus comes face to face with his fate from the Oracle at ...
