Antigone
Antigone was written in 441 BC by So[phocles. The antagonist in this play was Antigone, who ws the daughter of Oedipus. Antigone was the antagonist because she was in opposiition to the protagonist, which was Creon. Creon is the King of Thebes adn is going to have Antigone put to death for committing hte crime of burying her brother, Polyneices. Polyneices was killed by his brother and found guilty of treason, and was sentenced to public humiliation by a refusal of a burial. Because of her love for Polyneices Antigone gave her brother a proper burial, hence breaking the law made by Creon. The information given by the playwright, not verbalized ws simply that Antigone is the daugher of Oedipus. Antigone believes that she is a good person, who is only doing what is right. As she ws talking to her sister, Ismene she said, "Bury my brother? Yes-and buyr yours, if you will not. No one shall call me faithless." THis is proof that ANtigone is doing this crime out of confidence that she is doing what she feels should be done. Ant
The people of Thebes feel that Antigone is doing what is right and she does not deserve the fate that she is about to receive. Hemon also feels that Antigone is a good person and he feels that she is being wrongfully punished. "But I can hear these murmurs in the dark, the feelin in the city for this girl." "No woman," they say, "has ever deserved death or less, or died so shamefully in a noble cause. WHen her brother fell in the slaughter, she would not leave him unburied, to provide a meal for carrion dogs or passing birds of prety. Is she not, then, deserving golden honors? This is what men are whispering to each other." Ismene is at first angry with her sister for iwshing to break the law, but she does feel that Antigone is doing the right thing. "I mean them no dishonor; but when it means defying the state-I am not strong enough." She doesn't want anything to do with it until the crime is committed, she then offers to take half of the blam on her sister's behalf. "But now you are in trouble. I am not ashamed to ride the storm
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Approximate Word count = 708
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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