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Antigone
The play 'Antigone' is at least 2,440 years old. Still timely nevertheless are its main concerns over what to do about a bad law and how far to go for the sake of love or justice. Contributors typically ask and answer questions about the play's author, characters, imagery, literary devices, plot, and relationship to other plays of the same themes or time period.
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Yes, Haemon is Antigone's cousin. His father Theban King Creon is the brother of Antigone's mother, Theban Queen Jocasta. Jocasta also is the mother of her second husband, Theban King Oedipus. So Haemon is first cousin to both Antigone and Antigone's father.
Is Oedipus the king the same as Oedipus Rex?
Yes. In many ways. Oedipus Rex follows many of the same tragic concepts that Star Wars borrows from in the prequels, and the redemtive death of Oedipus in Oedipus at Colonus is similar to Anakin's death in episode VI. Also, on a more superficial level, there are incestual themes with Luke and Leia, though they don't know that they are siblings, as with Oedipus' relationship with his mother. The premonitions Anakin faces can also be likened to Tiresias' prophecies, both of which reveal painful truths to the hero.
What does Nora's behavior toward Helmer reveal about her attitude toward him?
the guys who made pencils
What is the similarity between the Greek myths about Antigone and Danae?
It's difficult to find similarities between Antigone and her sister Ismene. The main similarity is their thinking about the consequences of their acts. Even in this similarity, they're different. For Antigone looks at both the short and the long terms. She considers the insult to her brother Polyneices, her family, and herself over the denial of god-given rights. She also factors in the impact during life and death of knowingly letting her brother be mistreated. And she thinks about the chilling reception that she may receive in the underworld of the dead if she allows a Theban not to receive god-given rights to proper funerary procedures. In contrast, Ismene situates consequences within the context of the impact on her legal position and social standing. She thinks everything of being in compliance with the ruler and the powers that be, and nothing of being obedient to the higher moral authority of the gods and to the ties of blood, friendship, and love.
The military term 'sentry' typically refers to a person who is standing guard at an installation entry point. Examples are military police, security forces, and security police. Other terms used to describe a sentry are gate guard and entry controller.
What is the first ode of 'Antigone' about?
Readers and viewers of the play 'Antigone' learn from the first ode that mortals face a challenging choice between good and evil. According to the first ode, a good life is led when a mortal respects the laws of the city and the justice of the gods. But the problem with which the play begins is the contradiction between the laws of mortals and the justice of the gods. In the second ode, readers and viewers learn of another challenging problem. That problem is the mischievous role of the gods. According to the second ode, mortals are lured into offending the gods and therefore into cycles of divine punishment. In fact, their offenses bring upon them and their descendants divine curses from which there's no escape. Such indeed is the case of Antigone, whose great grandfather was the cursed Theban King Labdacus. The lesson that readers and viewers therefore learn from the two odes combined is the inevitability of suffering and death. The gods say that mortals must respect earthly laws and divine justice. The laws of Thebes contradict the justice of the gods. The Theban who respects one law violates the other. Violation of earthly laws is punished with death. Violation of god given justice is punished with curses and death.
The following is the correct order of certain events in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.):
1. A messenger announces Jocasta's death.
2. A messenger announces Oedipus' self-blinding.
3. Oedipus asks Creon to exile him from Thebes.
4. Oedipus visits with his children one last time.
What is Antigone's reaction to Ismene's help in 'Antigone'?
Antigone believes that Ismene is a traitor to her family becausy she doesn't want to help Antigone bury their brother Polynieces. Ismene cares more about herself thatn her brother's afterlife.
What metaphors are used to tell Creon that he needs to be more flexible in 'Antigone'?
he tells his father that he needs to be pliable like a tree in order to survive the tough winds and that if he doesnt loosen his ways, he will lose, like if a sailor doesnt loosen the sails on a boat in will sink, lines 797-803
Dramatic techniques in Henrik Ibsen's Doll's House?
Through the use of plot structure, language/dialogue, and the literary devices of irony and foreshadowing.
What is the connection between 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
That they both concern disrespect towards the gods is a similarity between "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.)..
Specifically, Gilgamesh undertakes quests with his companion, Enkidu, that are displeasing to the gods. Oedipus displeases the gods by trying to evade his prophesied fate. In the end, both Oedipus and Gilgamesh learn that disrespecting the gods does not empower them for they still must accept death, which is their allotment.
Why do lawyers act like arrogant assholes?
People hate lawyers because they're jealous of how awesome they are.
Which Greek Tragedian writer married their mother and killed their father?
Yes, Theban King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. He does both deeds unknowingly. While running away from home, he responds in kind to the violence of a stranger over the right of way at a crossroads. That stranger is old enough to be Oedipus' father, and they resemble each other. Oedipus then goes on to Thebes, where Theban Queen Jocasta is a recent widow. She's old enough to be his mother, and they may or may not resemble each other in some feature or quirk of personality or character.
As it turns out, the stranger is Oedipus' father, Theban King Laius. Jocasta is Laius' widow and mother of his only child. So she's Oedipus' mother.
Which famous play did Sophocles write?
Antigone and Oedipus Rex are two famous plays that Sophocles [c. 496 B.C.E. - c. 406 B.C.E.] wrote. A third play, 'Oedipus at Colonus', isn't as well known as the other two. All three plays deal with the consequences of the tragic ignorance of Theban King Oedipus.
What are three bad decisions Oedipus makes?
During the course of the play 'Oedipus Rex', Theban King Oedipus makes three bad decisions. The first is his decision to behave churlishly towards Teiresias the blind prophet. He bullies and insults the seer into revealing that he himself is the murderer of previous Theban King Laius and therefore the cause of the plague that affects the Theban people, livestock and crops. He goes so far as to call Teiresias a liar. As a result, Oedipus and all of Thebes learn of his own true identity as the killer of father and king and as the wedder and bedder of mother and queen.
The second is his decision to behave equally churlishlytowards his brother-in-law and uncle, fellow Theban King Creon. He accuses Creon of plotting against him and snatching royal powers for his own use and to his own advancement. He goes so far as to threaten Creon with a choice of death or exile as punishment and fate. As a result, he alienates the originally sympathetic Creon and ends up with the same choice for his own punishment and fate.
The third is his decision to blind himself after discovering that Theban Queen Jocasta has killed herself. He thereby makes it impossible for him to rule effectively. Additionally, he encourages Thebans to think of the fulfillment of his predicted fate as a blind exile.
The three bad decisions also make it impossible for him to sort out the three bad decisions that he makes before the play begins. His first bad decision, before the play's action, is fleeing from Corinth. The Delphic Oracle tells him that he's fated to kill his own father and marry his own mother. He goes to the Oracle expressly for a second opinion as to whether he is or is not the rumored adoptive or foster son of his parents. Instead, he should have found out whether or not Corinthian King Polybus and Corinthian Queen Merope were his biological or his adoptive/foster parents.
The second bad decision, before the play's action, is killing a man who's old enough to be his father. Oedipus should have had critical thinking skills developed to the maximum what with his high standing. So he needed to be respectful of prophecies as possible indicators of obstacles in his path and problems in his personality. Instead, his response is emotional in an emotion charged situation.
The third bad decision, before the play's action, is marrying a woman who's old enough to be his mother. Once again, Oedipus should have been able to think things through critically. Once again, he needed to see what prophecies were telling him about where he was weak and vulnerable.
What is the difference between 'a hero' and 'a tragic hero'?
A 'hero' does great deeds and/or has great powers. A 'tragic hero' has the same greatness, but there's an unhappy outcome in store. 'Tragic' refers to that unfortunate, unhappy consequence that tends to be loss of one's own life or of whomever or whatever gives meaning to that life.
For example, Antigone does the great deed of seeing that her brother Polyneices' god-given rights to proper funeral procedures are respected. But in so doing, she loses her life.
In the way of another example, Antigone's father, Theban King Oedipus, does the great deed of ending the cruel tyranny of the Sphinx over the city and citzens of Thebes. But in so doing, he ends up being rewarded with a royal wife and a royal job. Unbeknownst to him, the royal marriage leads him down a path to incest and anguish, because Theban Queen Jocasta turns out to be his own mother. The royal job leads him down a path to self-mutilation and disgrace, because he ends up having to punish a murderer who turns out to be himself.
In both cases, Antigone and Oedipus are heroes whose lives head in unfortunate, unhappy and therefore tragic directions.
How many actors performed in 'Antigone'?
About 18 to 23 actors perform in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, 12 actors are needed for the chorus of Theban elders. Another six to eleven actors interpret the non-choral cast of characters. With masks, six actors may take on eleven parts. Without masks, eleven actors are needed to play Antigone, Creon, Eurydice, Haemon, Ismene, the messenger, royal attendants, and Teiresias the blind prophet and his boy escort.
What oath does Creon swear in 'Antigone'?
That Haemon will pay for his insolence by seeing Antigone die before his eyes is the oath that Creon swears in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, Theban Prince Haemon disagrees with his father King Creon on how to rule and what to do about Princess Antigone. The disagreement heats up since Haemon loves his first cousin and bride-to-be as much as she is detested by his father. Creon reaches his limit in terms of an opposing viewpoint. He swears by heaven above that Haemon will pay for his insults and that Antigone will pay with her life
In Oedipus Rex what has caused the plague to fall on Thebes?
The unsolved murder of Theban King Laius is the cause of the plague in Thebes. It's actually a case of a pestilence that's wiping out the city's people, livestock and harvests. Nobody knows what the cause is until Theban King Creon comes back from a visit to the Oracle at Apollo's Shrine.
Murder is serious business. It requires proper cleansing procedures through the carrying out of purification ceremonies. It's even more serious when the victim is a king. The crime is seen as affecting all of Thebes. So all of Thebes needs to go through purification and the murderer or murderers need to be identified and punished.
Why does Oedipus kill himself?
Oedipus ripped out the golden brooches from Jocasta's dress. Then he savagely stabbed himself many times in the eyes, blood splattered everywhere from his ruined sockets. Basically, he stabs his eyes out with her brooches.
