Antigone's Right Problems
Antigone is a play written by Sophocles but reinterpreted by Paul Roche. Many of the Greek plays have a tragic theme that leads a character with a high position to a downfall. In Antigone, the main character Antigone has to save and stand up for her family's honor. Antigone is not the character that has a tragic downfall. The evil King Creon's downfall is the loss his son and wife. Antigone as the main character, tries to influence her sister Ismene to join her in her shenanigans. Antigone's problem with King Creon is that he rejects burying Polyneices because he kills his brother and his brother, Eteocles, kills him. The civil was between two groups within Thebes lead up to the death of the two brothers. Polyneices is considered to be in the rebel group by King Creon. Therefore, Polyneices is not buried because King Creon believes that an enemy should not have a burial and his family should not to mourn for him. Antigone goes against King Creon's wishes, and buries and mourns for her brother. Antigone proves to Creon that he is wrong about an enemy not being buried because the gods say that all people deserve a proper burial whether they are friends or enemies. Antigone's characteristics hav
The next characteristic that just leads Antigone to the wrong road is honor. Antigone faces Creon not as a woman but as any other person. Creon does not see women like any other man, but inferior to men. Antigone changes this when she faces Creon about what she did. Antigone says;" They think as I, but trim their tongues to you." Creon questions," Are you not ashamed to differ from such men?" Antigone says," There is no shame to reverence relatives." This passage shows how Antigone will not bring down the honor that Creon intends to bring down. Although Creon questions Antigone's sexuality, she attacks back with that there should be no shame when you give reverence to a relative. This refers right back when Antigone talks with her sister, Ismene. Antigone accuses Ismene of not showing reverence to her brother. In standing up against Creon, she is able to stand up for her family and at the same time introduce her next characteristic. In conclusion, Antigone was summed up into a feminist that wanted to change what men had done to the land of Thebes. Although Antigone dies, she should not be recognized as the heroine that had a tragedy. Creon should be recognized as the high classed person that fell. He did not fall physically but fell emotionally with the death of his son, Haemon, and wife, Eurydice. Therefore, in this story the heroine is partially the winner of the battle between good and bad. When the blind prophet, Tiresias, opens the e
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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