Creon’s fatal flaw In the play, “Antigone”, by Sophocles, display Creon as a tragic leader who caused his own downfall. Throughout the play Creon the King of Thebes experience a downfall from many fatal flaws. Creon begins his fatal flaw at the beginning of the play when Creon decides to honor Eteocles and not give burial right to Polyneices because Eteocles fought for the state and Polyneices against the state. Creon tragic flaw show itself when he sentence Antigone, doesn’t listen to Tiresias's
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Creon, the king of Thebes, has granted permission for Eteocles to have a proper burial, but not for Polynices. The Greeks at this time believed that without burial the person’s spirit would not be able to rest and would be a ghost for eternity. Antigone decided that a burial for her brother Polynices was needed even though Creon ordered that it was forbidden. So when the guards weren’t looking, Antigone threw dirt onto her brothers’ dead body so he could have a proper burial so his body could rest
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Socrates worked in Athens, where he lived as well. He was not a wealthy person and had a wife and children. He did various jobs, one of them being a city guard. He had a bad reputation as a husband. One of his powerful social connections, Plato, of the local oligarch, strongly nurtured his reputation in Athens. Socrates was a well-favored guest at the frequent parties that Plato organized, where there was a free flow in terms of philosophical discussions. However, the strong reputation of Socrates
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story. She is an honorable and important person, she has a fearless attitude, and she ends up facing a downfall because of her deeds. Antigone is an honorable and important person in Thebes. She obviously has a very good heart because she has decided to give her brother Polynieces a proper burial even though her uncle, Creon, has forbidden anyone to and has states that if someone does then they will be put to death. Antigone tells her sister, Ismene, "Ismene, I am going to bury him"
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Name Antigone The basic conflict in “Antigone” is a distorted understanding of the Justice. Unfortunately, the vengeance and justice can be confused in the minds of some self-centered individuals. Thus, Creon, the king of Thebes, was confident that his punishment of Antigone was justified, because she disobeyed not just the request of her uncle and future father-in-law, but she disrespected the direction of the supreme ruler of the state. Simultaneously, the Gods were not
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Final Paper on Antigone In “Antigone,” one can be able to come up with different interpretations of the meaning surrounding the Greek tragedy. From upon reading this play, my view about it was mainly on staying loyal and respecting your family no matter what the consequences. As I began to read the different scholarly interpretations, my view on “Antigone” had changed. The aspect of ‘hanging virgins’ all throughout the play and the Greek culture poses an interpretive problem. The lives of virgins
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What would you consider a hero? Someone who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding and noble qualities? Would you consider a hero typically a man or woman? Well, in this case it is a woman. In the play Antigone, Antigone is well known for becoming a hero because she was willing to sacrifice her own life, doing what she believed was the right thing to do. In the play, Antigone believes in the power of law and tradition. Even though King Creon orders that the traitor, Polynices should not
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On this day in 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. Because the ancient Egyptians saw their pharaohs as gods, they carefully preserved their bodies after death, burying them in elaborate tombs containing rich treasures to accompany the rulers into the afterlife. In the 19th century, archeologists from all over the world flocked to Egypt, where they uncovered a number of these tombs. Many had long
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its later phases is no longer about the conflict of law; It is about stubbornness and self will, about the sin of refusing to listen; about a man who has never been told. Conflict of law, presents the initial disturbance within Thebes. Creon, King of Thebes, refuses to bury the body of Polynices, for in his eyes Polynices is 'his country's enemy' Antigone pg.131. Thus, despite breaking the laws of the gods, Creon holds his power higher than that of God and heavens and enforces his law. As
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use his stature as the head of state to further his political purposes, at the expense of religion. Through dictating that Polyneices is “a returned exile,/ who sought to burn with fire top to bottom his native city” and shall not receive a proper burial, Creon uses his political power to humiliate the powers that sought to displace him from office (197-198). This is quite obviously a brutal leadership style, and displays no emotional intelligence. Antigone’s appeal to Creon as a leader invokes
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