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Antigone
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While reading by Sophocles, I could not help but feel confused. With the play named after what I thought was the title character, I assumed that would be the hero (heroine). As Aristotle described in The Poetics, the tragic hero is one who is noble and because of a character flaw or circumstanc ....
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....ed on burying her brother after he was killed in battle because it was the right thing to do by the law of the Gods, and Creon would not allow the burial because he felt that it was necessary to prove himself to the citizens of Thebes, since he was the new ruler and had to earn their resect to rule properly. When Ismene tried to dissuade from burying Polyneices, berated her, accusing her of not being loyal to the Gods of her family. Creon disobeyed the laws of the Gods so that the people of .... |
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