In the play Antigone written by Sophocles, Creon is the tragic hero. Creon was a king. His tragic flaw was that he has too much pride and this causes a downfall for him. Creon will not listen to anyone. He is very stubborn and he doesn’t notice that he might be doing the wrong thing. Creon said, “Let him do, or dream to do, more than a man can. He shall not save these girls from death” (i.628-629). Creon said this because he is making sure no one will help the girls because they did a bad thing in
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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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resort to drastic measures to get it. In Antigone, power both corrupts and blinds some of the characters. The clearest example of power is by far King Creon of Thebes, who is arrogant, insensitive, and just plain cruel to the individuals around him. Another example of power, which is more of a struggle for power, is Antigone, the main character in the play. She is a young girl who rises up alone against the state power. In Sophocles great tragedy, Antigone, power is an eminent theme that fatally
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name: Professor`s name: Course: Date: Antigone Antigone is a tragedy, in this play two key characters, king Oedipus and his daughter Antigone seem to be followed by tragedy and misfortune. Their seemingly innocent and just actions to them initiate a series of unexpected tragic events such as their deaths and those close to them. The tragic misfortunes that Antigone and her father king Oedipus face can in part be attributed to their shared flaws such as; pride, rash decision making, and rebelious
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In Antigone, the tragic hero, Creon, suffers as a result of his family’s suicides and becomes cognizant of the fact that he has committed moral wrongdoing by executing the title character. The prophet Tiresias foreshadowed this reversal of fortune and had previously criticized Creon for violating divine laws. In Sophocles’ Antigone, Tiresias reveals that the will of the deities is more important than the will of the characters and enables divine intervention through prophecy. First, by predicting
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Creon is an oppressive leader in the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. From time to time, Creon shows sympathy for Antigone. When Creon leads his people he often abuses the power. Creon is often described as a tyrant and a good leader. Creon’s actions often portray his decision of being a tyrant or a good leader. The actions for Creon being a tyrant is when he doesn’t bury Polyneices. Actions showing qualities of a good leader is when he reduces the sentence for Antigone. Creon has a chance of being
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Sophocles' Oedipus is a perfect fit to Aristotle's Ideal Tragic Hero. Oedipus follows all of the rules, with a hamartia, an anagnorisis, and a peripeteia. The audience is introduced to the hamartia, or tragic flaw, of Oedipus early in the play. Oedipus believes he can dodge the oracle given to him at Delphi that he will kill his father and marry his mother. By leaving the city of Corinth and heading to Thebes, Oedipus thinks that he can outsmart the will that the gods have for him. However, the audience
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Tragedy Helene P. Foley Barnard College, Columbia University “Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway out of its dramatic doldrums” begins a recent New York Times review (December 4, 1998) of a British Electra by Sophocles starring Zoe Wanamaker and Claire Bloom. This fall the Times has repeatedly remarked on the “deluge” of Greek tragedy in the 1998-99 theater season: the National Theater of Greece’s Medea, Joanne Akalaitis’ The Iphigeneia Cycle (a double bill that
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Antigone vs Otheelo: women In the plays “Antigone” by Sophocles and the Shakespearean tragedy “Othello” written by William Shakespeare, the themes that’s being portrayed are honour and gender, through the play the audience if captivated by the characters choices and motives through the play. With the characters choices they help to make the play more understandable as the audience can recognise the tragic hero in both the plays. The relationships between men and women in Othello are remarked as
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Specimen Papers and Mark Schemes for English Literature For first AS Examination in 2009 For first A2 Examination in 2010 Subject Code: 5110 Contents Specimen Papers Assessment Unit AS 2 Assessment Unit A2 1 Resource Booklet Assessment Unit A2 2 1 3 9 15 25 Mark Schemes Assessment Unit AS 2 Assessment Unit A2 1 Assessment Unit A2 2 29 31 61 95 Subject Code QAN QAN 5110 500/2493/0 500/2421/8 A CCEA Publication © 2007 Further copies of this publication
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