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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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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.
What is Creon's most important conflict in 'Antigone'?
In the play 'Antigone', the most important conflict for Theban King Creon is the reaction of his niece Antigone to one of his laws. The King issues a decree that allows the burial of the loyal Theban dead in the recent armed struggle against the Argive invaders. At the same time, he insists upon the disloyal Theban dead being left above ground and exposed to the elements, dogs, and birds. This decree contradicts the god-given justice, morality, rites, rituals and traditions by which Thebans live their lives. The loved ones that the disloyal Theban dead leave behind suffer great pain over the desecration of the corpses. But it only is Antigone who decides to take action against the law. She carries out proper funerary procedures for her brother Polyneices, who is among the disloyal Theban dead. The King must decide whether and how to punish his niece.
From whom does Oedipus save the city?
The Sphinx is from whom Theban King Oedipus saves the city of Thebes. The Sphinx terrorizes Thebans into paying heavy taxes. Additionally, she forces everyone coming to or going from Thebes to answer her riddle upon pain of death.
No one has the answer, and many die. Oedipus ends the situation by giving the correct answer. He alone realizes that a human is the only life form that gets around on fours in the morning of life as a baby, on twos in the afternoon as an adult, and on threes in the evening as senior citizens. The Sphinx is so distraught at the loss of her steady income and food supply that she throws herself off the nearby cliff.
What role does race play in suicide?
Between 1979 and 1992, Native Americans had a suicide rate 1.5 times the national average, with young males between 15 and 24 accounting for 64% of Native American deaths by suicide.
Does Creon lose his throne in Antigone?
No, he just feels intense suffering due to haemon dieing, (his son) and antigonies death.
Antigone and Ismene are the two daughters of Theban King Oedipus. Eteocles and Polyneices are the twin sons. Theban Queen Jocasta, as mother and wife to Oedipus, is mother and grandmother to Oedipus' four children.
What is Pennsylvania's view on government?
Pennsylvania's people think that there's no need at all for government. They truly think that they should be fre
What prophecy predicts that For it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem Luke 13 v31-33?
31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. 33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. The comment by Jesus is a historical commentary that many of God's prophets were in fact killed in Jerusalem. There is no prophecy involved here. Jesus was also alluding to His own forthcoming death, which even though outside the wall was in the close proximity of Jerusalem.
Who gives Oedipus to Polybus and Merope?
A Corinthian shepherd who is working in Thebes at the time of Oedipus' birth gives the infant to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. The royal couple is childless and therefore in need of an heir. The shepherd in turn receives Oedipus from a Theban native shepherd. That shepherd in turn receives the three-day-old infant from the child's mother, Theban Queen Jocasta. Jocasta wishes her own son to die, so as not to grow up and kill Theban King Laius, her husband and the child's father.
How do the minor characters help you judge Antigone and Creon?
The main characters drive the play and put us in moral dilemma that each one of us must answer to ourselves. The following are snippets of the main character from Antigone to help keep them straight when reading the play...
What is to be Antigone's punishment for burying her brother?
her uncle ordered that she must be killed
Her uncle, Creon, king of Thebes, order her to be killed. She was to be killed by being trapped in a a stone chamber with no food and starve to death.
What do you think creons tragic flow might be?
Creon's tragic flaw is hubris, thinking he can set the laws of human beings above the laws of the gods.
How are Lady Macbeth and Antigone similar?
Antigone and Lady Macbeth are similar in their decisionsto challenge the authority of the reigning monarch. Antigone challenges the right of her uncle, Theban King Creon, to issue a decree that contradicts the god-given traditions that guide the Theban journey through life into death. Lady Macbeth [b. c. 1015] challenges the right of her cousin, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040], to occupy the throne of Scotland. They also are similar in their final decisions to commit suicide. Antigone takes her life by hanging herself with her own halter. Lady Macbeth kills herself by means unspecified in the Shakespearean play.
What sort of attraction? Magnetism? Gravity? Sexual attraction? In the last case Aphrodite would be the one.
Are Antigone's and Ismene's appearances discussed in 'Antigone'?
No, there's no discussion at all about Antigone's and Ismene's appearances in 'Antigone'. Sophocles [496 B.C.E.* - 406 B.C.E.] gives readers absolutely no clues as to the sisters' ages or looks. There isn't even a clue as to their exact ages or birth order. But readers may guess that Antigone is the elder sister because of being engaged to be married and because of the confidence with which she handles their interaction.
*Before the Christian Era
What future does Oedipus foresee for his two daughters?
Oedipus did not for see a bright future for his daughters. He thought that they would be cast as social outcasts and never find true love.
What does Haemon say about his father's plan to kill Antigone?
Haemon goes from an apparently general support for his father's actions to undeniable opposition. Thus he starts out listing marriage as secondary to the guidance of Theban King Creon as father and sovereign. But he then qualifies the value of that guidance. He finds his father 'wise by nature' but insensitive to the input of his family and his subjects. He describes experience as the fine tuner of wisdom. For example, he characterizes his father as unmindful of the sufferings and preferences of Thebans whose dead aren't having their god given funerary rights respected. He calls Theban public opinion as admiringly supportive of Antigone, and fearfully opposed to Creon. And so he brings out in the open his opposition to the execution of his bride-to-be under the orders of her uncle, Creon.
What is Haemon's role in 'Antigone'?
he is antigone's soon to be husband and the son of Creon and he tries to convince his father not to kill antigone
Laius and Jocasta were the King and Queen of Thebes. Jocasta was a distant cousin of Laius, and Laius was third in descent from Cadmus. They were also the parents of Oedipus.
What is Antigone position on the burial of Polyneices?
antigone was summoned to creon, where she readily admitted her 'crime'
When an IRET instruction is executed what action takes place?
By ABDULLAH ABID Secretary Info & IT GLOBAL PEACE COUNCIL PAKISTAN. http://h.1asphost.com/gpcp/org The Interrupt-In-Service-Flag is set at the beginning of an interrupt-acknowledge cycle. It is reset by the IRET (Interrupt-RETurn) instruction. When IIS is set, interrupts are disabled. When the Status-register is read, IIS always reads as '0'.
What are the events in first to last order from the falling action on in 'Oedipus Rex'?
A messenger announces Jocasta's death. Oedipus asks Creon to banish him from Thebes. Creon brings Oedipus's children to him. Oedipus asks that he be allowed to bring his children with him into exile.
How are Oedipus and Creon related?
Creon is Oedipus's uncle, since he is Jocasta's (Oedipus's mother) brother. I guess Creon is also is brother-in-law, since he marries Jocasta.
Oedipus's recognition of the role he played in his own downfall reflects the worldview that our actions play a role in controlling our destinies.
How does 'Oedipus Rex' fulfull the Greek concept of the Unities?
He later on becomes more abundant in life
