Antigone is a tragic hero who believes in her moral duty to the gods over her duty to the state and is willing to suffer the consequences in order to do what is morally right. Her sister Ismene, on the other hand, follows the laws of the state in attempt to stay out of any trouble that she might get...

³Antigone & Ismene² The personalities of the two sisters; Antigone and Ismene, are as different from one another as tempered steel is from a ball of cotton. One is hard and resistant; the otherpliable, absorbing and soft. Antigone would have been a strong, successful 90¹s type woman with her libe...

Ismene and HaimonAntigone, the character, is a tragic hero because we care about her. Ismene and Haimon help us care about Antigone by making her feel worthy of loving. And with out this her plan to bury her brother seems irrelevant to the reader because we can care less about her. Ismene, althou...

Antigone "Is he not my brother, and yours, wether you like it or not? I shall never desert him, never." Antigone strongly stands for what she believes in. Because of different personalites and beliefs, many unfortunate events occur in the play, Antigone, by Sophocles. Although Antigone an...

Ahmed B. Karim Antigone Essay (Is Antigone a Feminist/Anti-Feminist Play) Sunday, Oct. 31, 2000 I think Antigone was a feminist play because of three main facts. Antigone was in all the conflicts, even though Creon started them all, even though Creon had all the power, Antigone still w...

Just as oil and water do not mix, neither do Antigone and her sister Ismene. Antigone, a powerful and headstrong woman, refuses to let the ideal gender-roles of the Greek society hold her down. She rebels against the ideals of society in belief that her brother Polyneices should be delivered a pro...

Antigone Journals#1 November 21The main points of interest in the first section of Antigone were that Antigone wants to be a true sister and not a traitor to the family. She tries to convince Ismene to help bury Polyneices. Ismene reminds Antigone that they are only women and are helpless. Though sh...

It has been said that the ancient Greeks invented what is modernly referred to as the tragic drama. One of the most influential writers of the time was Sophocles, a fifth century Greek dramatist who penned one of the earliest surviving pieces of literature, Antigone. This play came as the third in...

Antigone was written in 441 BC by So[phocles. The antagonist in this play was Antigone, who ws the daughter of Oedipus. Antigone was the antagonist because she was in opposiition to the protagonist, which was Creon. Creon is the King of Thebes adn is going to have Antigone put to death for c...

Antigone and Creon both meet the criteria of being Greek tragic heroes. Antigone and Creon both come from highly renowned backgrounds and have good and bad qualities. They both have the tragic flaw of being prideful although their pride wasn't exactly the same. They both recognize their faults ...

In Sophocle's compelling drama Antigone, there are many situations in which opposing characters' desires come into conflict. This happens between Antigone and Ismene, Creon and Haemon and between Creon and Teiresias. The drama revolves around Creon's, the King, order not to bury Pol...

Antigone: For Love and Honor There weren't too many main characters in the play Antigone, but out of all of them one seemed to stand out the most. My favorite character was obviously Antigone for the simple reason that she exhibited many great qualities one could only wish to have. She had a...

Antigone, one of the main characters in Sophocles' "The Three Theban Plays", is a unique character. She differs from many of the other characters in the plays in several different ways. She is a passionate, bold young woman who has suffered a great deal in her lifetime, but still de...

In Sophocles\' play Antigone we are faced with a simple conflict between Creon, king of Thebes, and his niece, Antigone. Although the conflict is clear and easy to understand on its surface, beneath the surface onlookers often become jaded as to which character, Creon or Antigone, Sophocles intended...

In the tradition of all great Greek tragedies, Sophocles created a masterpiece when he wrote the play Antigone. The play contains a similar plot to a tragedy such as Shakespeare\'s Romeo and Juliet because the play focuses on what lengths people go to when they cannot be with the ones they love. T...

Looking at Death through Antigone's Eyes- Obey the Gods or the King In Sophocles' play, Antigone, the main character Antigone is faced with a horrible tragedy; her two brothers have just died fighting each other and now one of her brothers, Polyneices, is not given proper burial right...

Antigone In the Greek drama Antigone there are many underlying conflicts between the two main characters, Antigone and Creon. The central conflict of the play is between ethical and political decision-making. Antigone stands for ethical choices, while Creon represents political decisions. Antigone...

Antigone has several themes and circumstantial settings that can be indirectly referred or related to in modern society. Sophocles uses various and strategically placed characters to present his play as well as his themes. The play mainly revolves around Antigone who acts alongside her elder sister...

In the play \"Antigone\" by Sophocles, Creon and Antigone have distinct conflicting values. Antigone first demonstrates feminist logic when she chooses to challenge a powerful male establishment. This establishment is personified by her uncle Creon, who is newly crowned as the King of Thebes. Creon ...

'And must go the way that lies before me. No funeral hymn; no marriage music; No sun from this day forth, no light, no friend to weep at my departing. (741-744) The play Antigone, written by Sophocles, tells the story of Antigone and Creon, and their continuing conflict between what is rig...

From reading Antigone, loyalty can come in various forms. One form is Antigone expressing loyalty to the family by giving her beloved brother, Polynices, a proper burial in honor of his death. However, being loyal to the state is important as well. Creon and the citizens of Thebes respect the law, ...

To Love Is To Dishonor In the drama Antigone the main conflict was that of Anitgone and Creon. Antigone's brothers were fighting in the war. Eteocles was fighting for the Thebes, while Polynices was for the other side. While in battle they fought and killed each other. Ismene, Antigone sist...

The Chorus signs an ode to man, praising him as the wonder of all things that live and move in the world. According to the chorus men have built vessels in which they travel the ocean, "Numberless wonders terrible wonders walk the world but none the match for man -- that great wonder crossing t...

Plot Overview The Chorus introduces the players. Antigone is the girl who will rise up alone and die young. Haemon, Antigone's dashing fiancé, chats with Ismene, her beautiful sister. Though one would have expected Haemon to go for Ismene, he inexplicably proposed to Antigone on the night ...

Psychologically crushed by a series of events that tarnished her family name and claimed the lives of her father, mother, grandmother and her two dear brothers, Antigone commits a crime that sends Creon, king of Thebes, and her uncle respectfully, into an outrage. Tempered with anger, Creon eventual...