" " " " " " Opposing Laws: A Study of Sophocles’ Antigone " In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, we see a struggle between two brothers deaths. According to Antigone, because human beings are forced to make difficult decisions between opposing laws; divine law becomes the most valuable. Yet the issue of the play goes beyond that conflict and touches the universal conditions of suffering, religion, and loyalty to family." " " In the early stages of the Prologue (1-84), Antigone shows devotion to her family through the burial of her brother. According to Antigone’s own speech:" " " …Creon buried our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a " " soldier’s funeral, and it was right that should: but Polyneices,
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
When Odysseus was fighting the suitors Athena told him to keep fighting. Books 16 and 22 All the protection, help, advice, urging to do something, and family protection is what leads to the conclusion that Athena and Odysseus are close friends because someone wouldn’t help another person this much unless they were close friends. Without Athena I don’t think Odysseus could have finished his journey home to
Personally, I fight my own internal enemies day after day, one being, the resentment and anger of having to put my grandmother into a nursing home. These feelings are equal to both sides as for me, I, as a grandchild should not be handling this life altering situation but if I hadn’t done what was right, she may be dead today. I had to weigh my options: let the tide roll and see where it goes, or step up and take her away to a safe, but unhappy place. As human nature, I think we almost always choose the option where life can be continued whether or not we or they are happy with it. This seems to show to me that we are slightly
Throughout the play, conflict of dissimilarity develops between the two protagonists, Antigone and Creon. Antigone, a strong and young individual, is not willing to allow her brother, Polyneices, to be dishonoured in his burial. She believes her brother deserves a proper burial out of loyalty to her family. Creon is shocked by Antigone’s
In the play “Antigone” written by Sophocles, it is clear that both family and authority are honoured in many different ways. Both Antigone and Haemon honor family while Creon and Ismene honor authority. Antigone values her family as she fights against the law to bury her unburied brother, Haemon shares his thoughts with his father and also through his love for his bride shows family honor. Creon shows arrogant thoughts towards the ideas of family honor when he creates the law that his nephew should not be buried, Ismene shows strong honor to authority as she does not help her sister bury and honor her brother. Throughout this play Sophocles contrasts family vs authority which diminishes and changes relationships between family members and characters.
She fought for Pearl as long with Dimmesdeal. The townspeople wanted to kill Pearl; they said she was the devil child. Hester never gave up on her beloved daughter Pearl. Hester Prynne would not revile the father of Pearl, she was protecting her daughter and he secret lover. Hester had trust for her lover and in her self as well.
Tom said he loved Daisy, but “his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”(20). Fear would be the only thing left to guide the lost love the Buchanan's once held. Love, Status, Family, and Wealth were all important to Daisy. However, she knew that Gatsby's feeling would always be in “a constant, turbulent riot”(99) just like hers had always been. The night after Myrtle's death, Daisy knew that she would have to give up love to find what she thought was most important.
Oedipus suffers his own tragedy in the stories before this one. Antigone is also Oedipus half brother, since Oedipus married his mother. Antigone's own tragedy is still in motion. Antigone needs the help of her sister, Ismene. Ismene’s submissive and timid personality makes Antigone dismiss it, an example of Antigone's tragic trait.
In addition, the loyalty between Antigone and her brother is unbreakable. Antigone knows the risks that will happen if she buries her brother, so she takes her sister Ismene outside the city walls to discuss her plan. Antigone says, “To give my brother a burial. I'll be glad to die in the attempt,-if it's a crime.”(P.70-71), which means that she is not afraid of anything and is prepared to do whatever it takes, even if it means to die trying, respecting her brother’s spirit so he can be at rest. Antigone is justified in burying her brother because no person should have to rot in the sun and be eaten by animals.