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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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Whom does the Delphic Oracle tell the young Oedipus that he will grow up to marry?
That he'll marry his own mother after having killed his own father is what the Delphic Oracle tells the young Oedipus. Oedipus believes himself to be the biological son and heir apparent of King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. He's greatly disturbed and disgusted by such a prediction. So he thinks that running away from home will keep such a horrendous fate from being carried out. But ironically, all of his free will choices and actions lead him to the very fate that he so wants to escape.
How is Oedipus physically challenged?
Lameness is what makes Theban King Oedipus physically challenged. A rod is driven through his ankles when he's only three days old. It's removed. But he's left with swollen feet and an atypical gait. In fact, the problem is reflected in his very name, which refers to his swollen feet.
What date did theseus kill the minotaur?
No one has ever said anything about the date. The world will never know.
What was Antigone's promise to her brother?
that she wouldalways love him and that she would never forget him because her brother died
How is bullfighting a reflection of the Spanish culture's attitude toward life and death?
No punches pulled here. The so-called sport is a massed exercise in sadism and blood lust and cannot be compared to fair play in , for example baseball. The animal has no chance of survival and (can one blame him) will try to defend himself. I understand some matadors and matadoras(yes there are female bull fighters. Carry concealed weapons Usually spring-loaded switchblade knives if as they would say(things get out of hand) and they lose their Espada (Spanish word for Big Sword) Lose the big blade and your are still in the game with a trusty switchblade in the inside pocket.There are other Spanish pastimes with blood red tones of sadism-cockfighting for one, other staged animal battles, and even the Pinata which implies killing a captive bird with spears or similar primitive weapons- like something considered barbarous in (Jungle land) movies or shows. Bravo indeed! Killing a defenseless animal for audience appeal, it should not be allowed. Bardot was right. Meow! Kids have a natural ( I speak not of basby Goats) love and nurturing or animals, many instinctively feel hunting (even though the animal has a sporting chance and the hunting action is seasonal, not year-round. The natural love of animals among children is cruelly perverted by (sports) such as Bull Fights. End the insane Cattle battle!
Yes, Theban King Creon is Theban Queen Jocasta's brother. So he's the brother-in-law of Jocasta's first husband, Theban King Laius. That makes him the uncle of the royal couple's only child, Oedipus. He also becomes the brother-in-law of Oedipus when the latter becomes his own mother Jocasta's second husband!
Why does the chorus call upon the god Bacchus?
The chorus calls upon the god Bacchus to make soldiers drunk. The chorus wants the city of Thebes to be freed from the plague that's decreasing the harvest and the numbers of livestock and of Thebans. The chorus knows that the war god Ares always is ready to solve problems militarily. Bacchus' influence therefore can keep soldiers from hearing the divine call of the war god for military action.
What motivates Oedipus in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Theban King Oedipus is motivated by his supreme role as the sovereign of his people and the head of the royal household. He also is motivated by his role within the ancient Greek universe as the representative of the gods on earth. Within the confines of 'Oedipus Rex', he ends up being motivated also by a pursuit of justice and truth, as Thebes' proclaimed wise savior, to deliver his people, livestock and crops from pestilence.
What did Creon decide to do with the sisters?
Creon decided to only sentence Antigone to death; since Ismene wasn't guilty he just lets her free.
What is Hegel's interpretation of the classic story of 'Antigone'?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [August 27, 1770-November 14, 1831] built his interpretative analysis around the workings of the thesis, its antithesis, and the resulting synthesis. In terms of the play 'Antigone', he began from the standpoint of righting the imbalance of one-sidedness. He thus interpreted the actions of the conscience of Antigone in terms of the strict adherence to the law by Theban King Creon. The two extremes were synthesized into morally balanced ethical claims to behavior.
Where can you find an online copy of 'Antigone'?
Please google 'online copies of Sophocles' 'Antigone'.' There are many possibilities just on the first page. One of the most authoritative versions may be the Internet Classics Archive that's available through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html.
What basis is there for Oedipus' fears that his daughters will not easily find spouses?
Family scandal and lack of protection are the reasons why Theban King Oedipus fears that his daughters will have difficulty finding spouses. Antigone and Ismene are the daughters of parents who commit heinous, albeit unknowing, offenses against the gods and against mortals.
Specifically, Oedipus is the albeit unknowing killer of his father and sovereign, Theban King Laius. He and Theban Queen Jocasta are albeit unknowing sex offenders. Their marriage is formed incestuously from their albeit unknowing relationship to each other as mother and son.
For his offenses, Oedipus blinds himself and hands himself over for punishment. The sentence is a choice between execution or exile. Either way, he won't be able to protect his daughters from the stigma of their birth as half siblings to their own father.
Whom does Oedipus send at the beginning of the play to consult Teiresias?
No one is sent by Theban King Oedipus to consult with Teiresias the blind prophet, at the beginning of the play. Instead, Oedipus has his brother-in-law and uncle, Theban King Creon, go to consult with the Oracle at Apollo's shrine. He has problems trying to carry out the information from the Oracle. So Oedipus sends a messenger to bring Teiresias to his presence. But no one is sent beforehand or in advance to consult with the prophet before this meeting with Oedipus.
At the beginning of the play Oedipus listens as citizens complain of a problem What is this problem?
the plague
Why does the sentry bring Antigone to Creon?
To save himself from the king's threat to kill him if he does not find the culprit.
What values are expressed in the Greek play called Antigone?
There are many values such as ethics, loyalty, family, and religion(when she defies Creon and buries her brother.) It really depends on the part of the play you are reading.
Why does the priest think Oedipus can help fix what is wrong?
Because he had save Thebes once before.
What is the Falling action of Antigone?
- Eurydice kills herself.
- Creon burns Polyneices's body.
- Creon tries to save Antigone.
- Creon has to live with the guilt of his whole family dying because of him.
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Who was Capaneus in 'Antigone'?
Capaneus wasn't a character in the play 'Antigone' by Sophocles [496 B.C.E.-406 B.C.E.]. Instead, he was a character in the play 'Seven Against Thebes' by Aeschylus [525/524 B.C.E.-456/455 B.C.E.]. He was one of six captains who supported Polyneices' attempt to regain his rightful control over the throne of Thebes.
Capaneus was famous for his great strength, size and pride. For example, in the invasion of Thebes, he stood before the gate that he was supposed to invade and insulted Zeus, the chief god. As a result, he was struck dead by one of Zeus' thunderbolts.
Capaneus' wife Evadne was so distraught over his death that she joined him on the funeral pyre. They left behind their son Sthenelus, who avenged his parents with the subsequently successful invasion of Thebes by the Epigoni. The Epigoni were the seven descendants of the captains who had tried to invade Thebes under Polyneices and had died.*
*The only survivor of the original seven captains was Polyneices' father-in-law, Argive King Adrastus.
What enrages Creon when the chorus asks why the gods buried Polyneices?
Theban King Creon becomes enraged at the thought of the gods having a role in the burial of his nephew Polyneices. That burial actually is legal in terms of the will of the gods and god given Theban traditions. But it's illegal in terms of the decree that Creon previously issues against burial of the traitorous Theban dead. So Creon doesn't want to admit that the gods are holding to their traditional stance of proper below ground burial and funerary rites for all Thebans be they loyal or treacherous. Such an admission points to the illegality of his law and the disrespect of that law to the gods.
What does Creon discover in Antigone's tomb at the end of Sophocles' play?
That he can't correct his error regarding Antigone and that he thereby is punished as predicted is what Theban King Creon discovers at his niece's tomb, at the end of the play 'Antigone' by Sophocles [496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.].
Specifically, Creon sentences his niece and future daughter-in-law to death for defying a law of no burial for perceived traitors to Thebes. But then Teiresias the blind prophet tells Creon to bury Antigone's brother Polyneices and to release Antigone from her death sentence for having tried to bury her brother. Teiresias warns that otherwise Creon stands to lose the life of his last child, Haemon. Creon lets Polyneices be buried in the Theban way. But he doesn't get to the remote cave where he has Antigone walled up in time to stop her suicide and the immediately subsequent suicide of Haemon.
What is the chorus' reference in saying disaster never leaves a house once shaken by heaven?
The chorus refers to the cursed house of Labdacus in saying disaster never leaves a house once shaken by heaven. Specifically, the descendants of cursed Theban King Labdacus are cursed for his having offended Dionysus the wine god. A divine curse upon an individual affects not only that individual but also all of that individual's descendants.
Labdacus is the father of cursed Theban King Laius, who is killed by his own son, subsequent Theban King Oedipus. Oedipus also is cursed by wedding and bedding his own mother, Theban Queen Jocasta. Oedipus' and Jocasta's children additionally are cursed by their twin sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, killing each other off. Their daughter Antigone is cursed by disobeying a Theban law that's punishable by death.
Oedipus' and Jocasta's daughter Ismene may be their only child to escape the curse, depending upon her ultimate fate. According to some sources, she survives the deadly fight between her sister Antigone and her uncle Creon. According to the one dissenting source of Mimnermus [flourished 630-600 B.C.E.], she doesn't escape the curse, because of her death during the siege of the Seven Captains against Thebes.
Why is it bad manners to lick your knife?
No doubt the rule arose from the fact that it is remarkably stupid to lick knives. Only in the past couple of hundred years have table knives been dull. Prior to that, licking a knife could result in serving a dish that was not on the menu.
What role might lysozymes play in apoptosis?
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