Antigone’s tragic flaw is that she is too passionate and strong-willed for her own good. She insists on burying her brother, Polyneices, even when the king forbade it. When asked why she ignored his demand Antigone replied, “I dared. It was not God’s proclamation” (783, 64-65). Antigone is telling Creon that rather than listen to his man made laws that she would rather follow the higher authority of the God’s.
Lack of Belief: The people of the land are religious and live there lives according to what messengers and oracles tell them. For Oedipus religion is pushed aside and he believes more in himself. These factors lead the state and the household of Oedipus into contamination which will only be cleansed by the gods and fate. The king's household and family are greatly affected by the religion in that there lack of believe in the gods has caused devastation within there lives. Jocasta’s Beliefs: Jocasta does not want to believe that Oedipus is destined to kill his father and marry his mother.
It tells the chronicle about a young Greek who was preordained to massacre his father, wed his mother, and in the process become the King of Thebes—before ultimately meeting his downfall due to his own conduct. The author, Sophocles, has really done a spectacular job of entailing several literary diplomacies in his epic piece of writing. Not only does he incorporate dramatic irony, but he integrates symbolism, trilogies, tragedies, hamartia, and hubris in his mesmerizing manuscript. Furthermore, in Oedipus Rex, Sophocles uses mystifying imagery, despondent tone, and catastrophic drama to epitomize the shift from glorious to demoralizing, proving that Oedipus was an undiscerning tragic hero who was too blind to notice his own particular outlook. Irony is often seen as an indispensable and crucial facet to Greek plays, or perhaps any play in that matter.
In Agamemnon, Aeschylus uses his characters to express his political opinion on war. In lines 49-54 Agamemnon and Menelaus’s war cry, at the outset of the Trojan War, is compared to that of eagles stricken with agony after they lose their young and their homes. Aeschylus’s statement is one of doom and destruction on many levels. Troy is destroyed, many Greeks die, and the House of Atreus is destroyed. On line 437, the chorus is speaking and they say that the god of war was the “money changer” of dead bodies.
The prophet Kalchas revealed that Apollo was angered by Agamemnon's refusal to return the priest's daughter to him (Mack 71, 72). Reluctantly, Agamemnon agreed to return her to Chryses, but demanded compensation - Achilleus' war prize, the captive woman, Briseis. This provoked Achilleus' anger, and after the monarch and warrior exchange threats and angry words, Agamemnon followed through on his claim. The goddess Athena quickly appeared to prevent Achilleus from killing Agamemnon by promising that he will one day be compensated with three times as many prizes (Mack 74). Meanwhile, the efforts of Nestor, King of Pylos, fail to
Homer’s Illiad vs. Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy “Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ song Achilleus and its devastation, which puts pains thousand fold upon the Achaians” (1.1). As the opening of the Iliad delivers a strong sense of rage instilled by Achilles, discontent and uproar are clear themes that Homer is trying to present in his work. Homer’s great epic was transformed into a war film that strives to depict those events described in the Iliad. Granted, the events that take place in the film stray away from those in Homer’s original work, but the Iliad only inspired the movie, it was not a complete replica of what he wrote. Major as well as minor aspects are evidently removed or altered, and can be seen when comparing the poem to the film.
Joe Vitale Mrs. Reganato English III – Academic 9 April 2014 Effects of Guilt Guilt, by definition, is an emotion that occurs when a person believes that they have violated a moral standard. It is the single driving force that can push someone off the edge thus into a spiraling downfall of tragedies. Through numerous centuries of literature, guilt has been one of the key themes repeatedly stressed. In this way, the morals of mankind are accentuated, explored and disturbed. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, guilt plays an immense role in the lives of Macbeth and his Queen; guilt is the single attribute that pushes them to the edge and tests their sanity.
Ismene cannot convince Antigone to not bury their brother Polynices. Later in the play, Ismene does realize that what Antigone did was the right thing. In Greek tragedies, tragic flaw is defined as a characteristic that leads the main character to his or her own downfall. Tragedies tell the story of a reversal of fortune, from good to bad, experienced by a man or woman of noble birth. In all Greek tragedies, and other tragedies the main character ends up dying.
Sophocles' play Antigone and the 1990 film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge both display how Antigone and India Bridge try to do good, but are victims of the male hierarchy around them. Sophocles' Antigone is a Greek drama about the daughter of Oedipus. The play begins with Antigone and her sister Ismene having a conversation outside the palace. They talk about how their brothers Polyneices and Etecleos killed each other fighting for the throne. Antigone explains that the new ruler, Creon, has given a proper burial to Eteocleos; however, Polyneices will not receive a proper burial because he was a traitor.
‘Titus Andronicus is as much a political tragedy to do with the failed moral idealism of the hero’s idea of Rome as it is a domestic one about what happens to him and his family.’ Discuss. In his play, Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare portrays the situation around the downfall of Rome. He uses one family’s tragedy as a means of displaying the political turmoil and corruption of the Roman Empire. The play focuses on the family of Titus Andronicus, a famed Roman military leader. The conflict of the play begins during a struggle for the throne, which at its end only begets a period of corruption and betrayal.