Antigone

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Summary: The Grand Finale
Review: Sophocles finished the trilogy nicely with this. Part 3 basically revolves around the contrast between Creon's hatred and Antigone's compassion. Creon's son also plays an interesting role. He sways between his father and Antigone, and finally he chooses Antigone. The death of Antigone and Creon's son is a worthy followup to the horror of Oediuus blinding himself and the beauty of Oedipus "seemingly sighted" entering the Greek version of heaven. It is also interesting that when Creon beholds this horror, he too becomes human again. It is interesting that Sophocles creates both intense horror and beauty in each part of the trilogy. Also, the horror in his plays returns the characters to humanity.

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Summary: Great
Review: Sophocles' Antigone is a wonderful work - a dramatic and riveting play with a superb cast of characters. It is easy to understand, intersting, and fun to read. I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Great
Review: Sophocles' Antigone is a wonderful work - a dramatic and riveting play with a superb cast of characters. It is easy to understand, intersting, and fun to read. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: How far should loyalty to the state go?
Review: The moral of this play is simple. The question: is man (or in this case, woman) justified in breaking the laws of the state, supposing those laws are contrary to the higher system of laws the man (or woman) obeys? For example, should a man break a temporal law if it compromises his religious or moral beliefs? In this play, Sophocles addresses this issue, though he doesn't necessarily resolve it.

The dilemma is posed in the form of Antigone, the daughter of the late Oedipus. Her brother, Polyneices, rebelled against the state, and was killed while attacking his homeland. Because of this treachery, Creon, the new king, declares that Polyneices will not have a proper burial, but will instead be left exposed to rot. Antigone decides that her first loyalty is familial, and provides her brother with a crude burial. As a result, she is condemned to death.

This is a very difficult question, one which has been debated even until today. For example, Thomas Paine touched on it in Common Sense, and Thoreau focused on it in his famous essay "Civil Disobedience," which in turn influenced Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and others. Clearly this is a question which has perplexed the ages, and this is one reason why this play is still so important today.

This issue will continue to exist, and so will this remarkable play produced by one of the greatest playwrights in history.

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Summary: Pride comes before the fall
Review: The play Antigone is based on a young woman in Ancient Greece. It's about the trials and tribulations that Antigone faces as she decides to follow her heart and not the rules, it is also based on her uncle, Creon and his despotic, proud ways. This was a good play to read because it showed how to deal with pride and wisdom. There are some real-life lessons in this book, and it deals a lot with reality. Although you may never marry your cousin, your father may never marry his mother, or your uncle may never shut you in a cave to die, the main and underlying theme still applies with life today.
I think that Sophacles main purpose in writing Antigone was to demonstrate pride and what it can do to you. Hubris, in Greek Tragedy, was defined as a transgression of the divine or moral law through ambition or one of the passions, ultimately causing the transgressor's doom. So, hubris was the ultimate from of pride, and led to destruction from the gods. In Antigone, we see how Creon's power gets to his head, and orders a law that goes against the gods decree. Antigone follows the gods and her heart, and goes against Creon's decree. She is punished for her disobedience by Creon, but he is punished by Fate. He showed insolence to the gods therefore must be punished. Ultimately Fate runs it's coarse and leaves Creon a broken man. He learns from his pride and everything he held dear was destroyed. Sophacles wrote this play to convey that pride is our downfall, and it clouds our visions and our judgments.
There are many life lessons in this play. The biggest one is about letting our pride get the best of us. When we think that we are above God, then it is time for a reality check. We were created lower than God, in order to love, worship and serve Him. The same was true with the many Greek gods. Creon elevated himself to a divine position, and that was his down fall. Like it says in Proverbs, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18.)" Another life lesson is that there is wisdom in the counsel of many. Creon was counseled by his son Haemon, and a seer Tiberius, that he was doing the wrong thing in sending Antigone to her death, but he didn't listen until it was too late to change things. Overall this was a great book. The lessons were clear and dealt with reality. The language was a little hard to understand, and made it difficult to understand at times. I recommend this book, though, and would read it again

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Summary: Antigone Critique
Review: The script of Antigone was not a story I favored. The character Creon, was the only one who lived at the end and Sophocles did not say what had happened to Ismene. It also didn't help that I didn't understand some of the lines because the way they talked so different from the way we talk now. I did not like the character Creon, because he had a really big issue about women teaching him or women being taught because they were supposedly a lower species. He had absolutely no respect for women and I think that really bugged me because man and women were made equal.
I think Sophocles main point in writing this script was to entertain the gods,because he would get a bunch of people together and act it out for the gods the best they could,because they had very high respect for the gods in those times.
Though I did not understand all of the script, I've learned a life lesson while reading this, and that is, that you should always put family first and their opinions because, they are the people that matter the most in you life. I've also learned that if you do not listen to your counsel, the nation will over come you. Another thing is that the women now are treated so much better than the ancient greek times and we should be grateful for that.
I would recommend this scriptto mature teens and adults, because i think that they would understand it and be able to enjoy it the most. I would not recommend this script to someone who may have a hard time reading ancient greek talk because it would of couse be difficult to understand and they will not be able to enjoy the script.

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Summary: Excellent story
Review: This book is an excellent show of the determination of a girl who will do whatever it takes to bury her brother, even if it means to defy the king. I loved the ending and the story was just excellent.

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Summary: antigone
Review: this book was not one i could connect with. it was written too long ago and i found it boring and not at all humorous. i did not appriciate this book in the least. feel free to let me know how you felt. my e-mail adress is [e-mail]. I'm 15 so do not assume I'm writing this because I have nothing better to do!

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Summary: Great play
Review: This is a great, tragic play. It's not too hard to read, and it's pretty short (!), so you could read it in a day probably. This play will have you questioning what you would do in both Antigone's and Creon's situations, so you know it's pretty good. And the important question: who's the tragic hero?!? I'm still deciding

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Summary: Thoughts
Review: Thoughts

I feel that Sophocles "Antigone" was rather enjoyable. I loved the irony throughout the whole story that Sophocles is so great at. I loved how the whole fight happened between a family. It resembles a modern day family. The brothers fighting, siblings fight non-stop. I look at Creon and Antigone's relationship to resemble at father daughter relationship. Creon being the father of a teenager, (Antigone), who is looking at things for herself and going against her father's (Creon) rules. Also the irony of how the people that Creon really cared about were the people who ended up dead in the end. His pride was too great; his emotions did not stand a chance against his pride. It was very easy to relate to the plot of the play.
Personally I feel that Sophocles was trying to say that you have to be aware of what is really important in your life. You have to sit down and think about if what you are doing will bring you happiness in the end. Creon was not the greatest at this. He decided to put his pride in front of his family. In his mind there was no way a woman would go against what he said and get away with it. Even if it was his niece, and future daughter in law. But I can not put all of this on Creon. Antigone also was very prideful. But unlike Creon, she decided that family was more important then the laws of the land. While Antigone's decision making could be considered arguable, I would say it was safe to say that Creon did have his priorities mixed up.
From reading the play I have been able to reevaluate my life. From seeing the way that Creon ended up in the end, I decided to take my pride and put it towards the back of the line. In my life my relationship with Jesus Christ should be first, but other things always seem to slip in there. Maybe it is not pride, maybe pride was just used as a substitute for something, maybe it is an addiction, or something else that interferes with what is really important. I have had the chance to look at my life and get my "pride" in order. Something like that can tear a man apart and his family. Sophocles wrote a great example of this.
If you have not read Antigone yet, I would highly recommend it. I feel it is a great story. It has a strong plot. But I feel the most enjoyable part of reading it comes from when you take it off of paper and you put in your life. Now I'm not saying go and live your life by a play written more then 2000 years ago. But no one is perfect, except my savior, Jesus Christ, and until the day I am standing next to him, I would do mostly anything to strive for perfection. I being a Christian am called to be like Christ. So if taking something that I have read and try to make it apart of my life helps me along the road then I say why not. Read it, enjoy it, apply it.