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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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Why does Creon want the guards to hurry Antigone to her tomb?
Creon wants the guards to hurry to Antigone in the cave because Teiresias (the blind prophet) told him that two family members would die is Antigone did. So at that, Creon needed to save her.
What were the major events in the 1940s?
Pearl harbor was bombed and world war 2 ended! Destiny in NC AND the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, Japan.
What does Creon decide to do with Antigone?
Wall up his niece and intended daughter-in-law in a secluded cave is what Theban King Creon decides to do with Princess Antigone of Thebes.
Specifically, Antigone breaks a law that her uncle and intended father-in-law issues. According to the punishment specified by the law, Antigone is supposed to be struck by heavy rocks until dead. But Creon decides to give her a slower, less public death in the hopes of quelling growing opposition by his subjects to his rule.
Antigone, Teiresias the blind prophet, and Theban King Creon don't talk all together about profit and loss in monetary terms. They aren't all on the stage at the same time in 'Antigone'. In fact, playwright Sophocles [496 B.C.E.* - 406 B.C.E.] doesn't give Antigone and Teiresias any opportunity in which to interact. Creon is the only character of the three who gets to interact with everyone else.
How is Antigone a tragic hero?
Antigone herself is not the tragic hero of Antigone. The tragic hero of Antigone is Creon. Creon is a well-intentioned king, that comes from royal blood, but he brings his death upon himself with his tragic flaw. His flaw was that he paid more attention to the laws of man and easily forgot about the power of the gods. After everyone that he loves dies, Antigone (his niece), Haimon (his son), and Eurydice (his wife), he becomes a better person and changes his views. However, it is too late for Creon by the end of the tragedy, and he is too weighed-down by his own guilt. He chooses to die.
What transcends Antigone's fear of death?
Concern over her reception in the afterlife is what transcends Antigone's fear of death. She says that she'll spend a far, far longer part of her existence dead than alive. She needs to behave in such a way during her life that she will be welcomed by the gods and by her family and friends in the underworld.
What is an example of alliteration?
The baby is bundled up with blankets near the burning log.
The Wicked Witch of the West is another example of alliteration.
In Theseus and the minotaur what happend to Ariadne?
She followed Theseus on his journey back towards Athens. They spent the night on the island of Naxos, then Theseus sailed on, forgetting that he had left Ariadne behind. But Dionysus found her and married her.
Theban King Creon appears to symbolize the unassuming nature of modesty. He actually rules jointly with the married couple that his sister, Theban Queen Jocasta, forms with Theban King Oedipus, who is both her son and her husband. Creon indeed states that he has no interest in ruling alone and that he's content with the power sharing arrangement.
Which brother of Antigone died?
Eteocles and Polyneices were both brothers of Antigone and of Ismene. They were the twins who succeeded their father, disgraced Theban King Oedipus, as rulers of Thebes. They were supposed to alternate years of rule in a joint power-sharing arrangement.
But Eteocles refused to give up the throne once his year was over. Being denied his legal rights of succession and being exiled forced Polyneices to assert his rights to home and work by gathering together disgruntled Thebans and invading Argives. The invasion was unsuccessful, and the brothers fought each other literally to the death.
What is the nature of the conflict between Creon and Antigone?
Authority is the nature of the conflict between Theban King Creon and his niece and future daughter-in-law, Antigone. Antigone believes that the will of the gods must be honored and obeyed. That respect to divine authority must be shown and carried out even when contradicted by the authority of high standing mortals. In contrast, Creon believes that the will of the gods can be reinterpreted and changed by powerful mortals, such as himself.
So it comes down to whom does the citizen obey in a pinch? Is it the gods whose existence is a question of faith? Or is it mortals whose existence is in the here and now?
How does Creon treat Oedipus during the final scene of Oedipus Rex?
Creon exerts authority over Oedipus.
Who suffer the most from inflation?
1. People living on a fixed income
2. Savers
3. Businesses
4. Creditors
Is the aesthetic style of 'Antigone' epic or formal or theatrical?
The aesthetic style of 'Antigone' is theatrical. An epic style tells the story of the feats and genealogies of heroic figures. A formal style is recognized by its controls and restraints in dealing with emotion charged issues. A theatrical style is characterized by drama. An absence of heroic recountings and comprehensive bloodlines, an abundance of emotion, and the presence of drama describe 'Antigone'. So the play is neither epic nor formal, but indeed theatrical.
What were Count of Artois views of government?
The Count of Artois views of government include maintaining status quo. He also attempted to restore ancient regime during French revolution to increase power of the clergy and aristocracy.
What does Oedipus accuse Creon of and why?
Theban King Oedipus accuses Theban King Creon of trying to overthrow him. The reason lies in what Creon and Teiresias the blind prophet previously tell him. Creon says that Thebes is suffering from a pestilence that only go away with the identification and punishment by execution or exile of the killer or killers of Theban King Laius. Then Teiresias identifies Oedipus as the killer. Oedipus doesn't know that Teiresias is correct in his identification. So he thinks that he's being framed.
What does poetics have to do with 'Antigone'?
Poetics refers to treatises, theories, practices, or feelings and utterances that relate to verse. The term applies to 'Antigone', because the play is a tragedy. One of the ancient Greek requirements of a tragedy is its being written in verse.
The tragic hero of Antigone is Creon. Creon is a well-intentioned king, that comes from royal blood, but he brings his death upon himself with his tragic flaw. His flaw was that he paid more attention to the laws of man and easily forgot about the power of the gods. After everyone that he loves dies, Antigone (his niece), Haimon (his son), and Eurydice (his wife), he becomes a better person and changes his views. However, it is too late for Creon by the end of the tragedy, and he is too weighed-down by his own guilt. He chooses to die.
In the labyrinth at Knossos palace, Crete.
King Minos had Daedalus (the best architect ever lived) to build a labyrinth (a complicated maze,one you will never escape) to hold his step-son, the Minotaur.
So the Minotaur resides in the Labyrinth.
In the labyrinth beneath King Minos' Palace in Knossos.
He did not live long.
Theban King Creon has a wife, Queen Eurydice. They're the parents of Haemon, who is the first cousin and fiance of Antigone. After the star-crossed couple's suicides, the Queen likewise kills herself. King Creon is left alone to bemoan the lonely, sorrowful consequences.
Does the Sphinx prevail over Thebes?
No, the Sphinx doesn't prevail over Thebes. For a terrifying amount of time, she demands and receives heavy taxes from the people of Thebes. During that same time period, she kills residents of and visitors to Thebes. She eats them alive if they can't answer her riddle.
Then along comes subsequent Theban King Oedipus. He alone knows which life form crawls on all fours in the morning, walks on two steady feet in the afternoon, and gets around on threes in the evening of life. The Sphinx is so caught up in her future meal that she can't handle Oedipus having the correct answer. She throws herself over a cliff, to her death.
Did Creon and Antigone control their fates?
No. According to the play 'Antigone', neither Antigone nor Theban King Creon controlled their fates. Antigone was saddled with the staying nature and power of the curse on the house of the Labdacidae. She and her uncle Creon both were descended from Cadmus, the founder of Thebes in about 2000 B.C.E.* But Antigone descended by way of Cadmus' grandson Labdacus, who was the ancestor of the Labdacidae. The King descended by way of Cadmus' grandson Pentheus. So he wasn't a member of the Labdacidae branch of the family. But mortals may have been the toys of the gods. For the chorus explained that gods led mortals to believe that evil was good, and that wrong was right, just to cause mischief, and to exact punishment. Such a situation was the kind in which the King found himself. He wanted to protect his city, and consolidate his rule. So he issued a law that gave him law and order, but contradicted the god-given rights by which Thebans lived and died. *Before the Christian Era.
