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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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What flaw in Antigone does the chorus point out?
The flaw in Antigone that the chorus pointed out to her in Scene 4, line 45 was her lack of respect for human laws. This flaw would lead to her death, and the chorus blamed Antigone for her own demise.
What is Creon's motive on Antigone's death?
You can say 2 things
1= selfishness. Creon wanted to seem like a strong king who wasn't to be messed with. He wouldn't let Antigone live as he wasn't going to be beaten by a girl. So you could say he was sexist and that his selfishness motivated him to kill Antigone.
2= He thought he was doing the right thing as he believed Polynices was a disloyal person to the dead king, so he thought that Antigone was being disloyal as well.
Both answers can be justified with text from the story.
hope this helps:)
Is there a main message to the audience of 'Oedipus Rex'?
Yes, a main message of 'Oedipus Rex' is the need to talk the talk and walk the walk. Theban King Oedipus issues a harsh, punitive decree that he ends up having to carry out upon himself. He flatly states that the murderer of Theban King Laius, his father and royal predecessor, must be exiled. He doesn't allow for any defense or mitigating factors.
Ironically, Oedipus therefore faces the severest punishment for the least severe degree of his particular kind of crime. Specifically, his murderous act isn't premeditated. He protects himself from violence and does so terminally in order to end a cycle of violent action and reaction before it can get started. But his punishment is as harsh as though he preconceives and initiates the bloodiest, most brutal of murders.
What is the topic in 'Antigone'?
The topic refers to the subject of an argument, a discussion, or a piece of writing. The topic in the play 'Antigone' therefore is the question of the burial of Polyneices. Polyneices is an exiled Theban who betrays his city. Traditionally, as a Theban, he still may expect a proper burial. But his uncle, Theban King Creon, goes against tradition. He issues a decree that honors the right in terms of the loyal Theban dead, and denies it to the disloyal Theban dead. And so the play asks whether or not Polyneices' corpse needs to be buried in accordance with god-given tradition or in compliance with a manmade law.
How is Antigone's father also her brother?
Incest. He killed his father and married him mother, after which they had a child. Of course he did not know that she was his mother, because his father send him away (some one predicted that his son would kill him).
That a pestilence is caused by the unsolved murder of Theban King Laius is what Theban King Creon tells the people of Thebes in the play 'Oedipus Rex'. He has that information from the reliable Oracle at Apollo's Shrine. He goes on to explain that according to the Delphic Oracle, the murderer or murderers must be identified and punished with execution or exile for the pestilence to end.
That god given grants to proper burials will not be honored for all the Theban dead in a recent civil war is what Theban King Creon tells the people of Thebes in the play 'Antigone'. He makes this decision on his own, in complete contradiction of the will of the gods. He specifies that those Thebans who die disloyal to Thebes are considered traitors, not Thebans, in death. Only Thebans who die loyal to Thebes are considered Thebans, and therefore eligible for their god given rights to proper below ground burials and accompanying rites.
Oedipus, the mythical king of Thebes, is Antigone's dad.
The irony though, is that since Oedipus married his mother, he is also Antigone's brother. You can read all about this in the Three Theban Plays by Sophocles.
How many people does Oedipus kill at the crossroads?
Theban King Oedipus kills four people at the crossroads where three paths meet. The royal group originally numbers five members. Theban Queen Jocasta's trusted servant is the sole survivor. Among the four casualties are the royal group's herald and Theban King Laius, who is Jocasta's first husband and Oedipus' biological father.
Does Oedipus complex only apply to boys?
Yes, the opposite effect in girls is called an Electra complex.
In what city does 'Antigone' take place?
The play 'Antigone' takes place in the city of Thebes. Most of the action takes place in and around the city's royal palace. But some significant action takes place in the desolate area where the bodies of the Argive invaders and their Theban allies are left exposed to birds, dogs, and the elements. Other significant action takes place in the remote cave that becomes Antigone's last home on earth.
How are robbers significant in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Robbers are significant in 'Oedipus Rex' by their contradiction of fate with their presence, and by their confirmation of fate with their absence. Theban King Laius was murdered, and the murderers never were identified or punished. The crime was left unsolved, with robbery as the claimed motive.
Theban King Oedipus was given Laius' throne and widow by the people of Thebes. He had freed the city of a brutal Sphinx who took Thebes' money and wealth away in taxes and killed its people for not knowing the answer to an obscure riddle. Just before his arrival, Oedipus had killed a stranger in self defense. He ended up fearing that that stranger had been Laius, his own father and his sovereign.
If it turned out to be true that more than one perpetrator did the dastardly deed, then Oedipus wasn't to blame. Oedipus had been one against five. But if it turned out that one perpetrator acted alone, then Oedipus had ended up killing his own father and marrying his own mother.
What city did 'Miracle on 34th Street' take place?
New York City because that's where the Macy's Christmas parade is every year.
New York.
What is haimon's main concern with Creon in antigone?
Haimon's main concern is that he be with antigone and that his father would let them be. Creon main concern is that haimon and antigone does not get married.
Whom does Creon blame in the end for Antigone's death?
Creon blames himself for Antigone's death. He also blames himself for his wife Eurydice death and his son Haemon's death as well .
What just happens in the sisters' family in 'Antigone'?
The death of their twin brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, and the issuing of a controversial decree are what just happen in the family of Antigone and Ismene. Eteocles and Polyneices are supposed to alternate years in a power sharing arrangement in the aftermath of the disgrace of their father and half brother, Theban King Oedipus. But Eteocles refuses to share.
In response, the exiled Polyneices marries into the Argive royal family. He thereby has powerful allies with which to launch an invasion. But the battle ends with Argive defeat, Theban victory, and the death of the two brothers.
In response, Theban King Creon as regent issues a decree that contradicts divine law. By that decree, Thebans who die loyal to their city are allowed their god granted rights to proper funerary procedures and rituals. Thebans who die disloyal to the city aren't going to have their rights respected.
Antigone doesn't like the law. She cares about both of her brothers. She cares about her standing in the underworld realm of the afterlife. She wants to be able to look gods and mortals in the face and say that she was in compliance with divine dictates.
Whom do Oedipus and Jocasta send for?
King Oedipus and Queen Jocasta of Thebes send for the sole survivor of the fatal attack on Theban King Laius. The individual in question has known the Queen for a long time. He worked at first as a shepherd near the palace of Thebes, and then as a trusted servant within the palace. After the attack, he received the Queen's permission to go back to his former life as a shepherd.
How many pages are there in 'Antigone'?
Edition, language and typescript determine the number of pages in the play Antigone by Sophocles (496 B.C.?-406 B.C.?). For example, the translation by Richard Emil Braun of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, devotes 51 pages to the actual play, preceded by introductory material and succeeded by appendices and footnotes. His translation identifies the original Greek text as totaling 1,353 lines.
How would you describe the theme of justice in 'Antigone'?
Justice in the play 'Antigone' may be manmade or god-given. The two types of justice may harmonize or they may contradict each other. The safest course to take is the harmony of manmade and god-given laws. For divine punishment, divine retribution for human error is inevitable. And those humans who cross the gods find themselves and their descendants saddled with the staying nature and power of curses.
How according to prophet did Creon King of Thebes receive his kingdom?
Kreon, entellectual servant of thebes, when laios left the city and did not come back, Kreon became a king as an offficer and let the kingdom to oidipus when he enter the city by killing a great dragon.when oidipus dies he became a king once more to let the crown etocles and polinices to be a king one by one each year one of them.Kreon become king 3th time when polinices fight against etocles to take over his turn but both of them killed each other in war ...
What major theme does Sophocles introduce in the opening scene of the play Antigone?
Do we owe owe greatest allegiance to the gods or to the state.
