Sophocles was born in 496 BC in Colonus, Athens. He was born to a wealthy family and therefore giving him the chance to take all the courses in the arts available at the time. He competed in many singing competitions, almost always winning, and performed at very important events, the most notable being the battle of Salamis, where he lead a choir in celebration of Greece’s victory against the Persians. The multi talented playwright was also an ordained priest and an actor. It was not uncommon for Sophocles to act in his own plays and even had a juggling routine in Nausicaa and The Woman Washing Clothes. Unfortunately, Sophocles’ voice became weak and he focused all his attention on writing.
Although he wrote over one hundred plays, only
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Summaries: Julius Caesar tells the story of a newly elected king coming into power. Caesar is warned by a soothsayer to “beware the ides of March” but disregards it. His fellow senator Cassius is suspicious of how he will act when he is given more power than he has ever had. He believes there 's a chance that Caesar will be a bad king and that he needs to do something about it. Cassius begins to befriend Caesar’s best friend Brutus in hopes to persuade him to help take Caesar down. Brutus is easily convinced and becomes dubious of Caesar and he and Cassius create a group to make a plan on how to take Caesar’s power away. The group of conspirators come to meet at Brutus’ house and his wife Portia is wary of how he is acting. She asks him to confide in her and he agrees but the conspirators arrive again before he could tell her. Meanwhile, Caesar’s wife Calpurnia has a terrible dream depicting his death. She begs him not to go into town but a conspirator convinces him to come anyway. When he arrives, he is attacked and stabbed to death, even his supposed best friend Brutus joins in. This is where his famous line “Et tu Brutus?” comes …show more content…
Antigone succeeds in her task but Creon, her future father-in-law, finds out someone went against his decree and insists they be found. As soon as the guard finds out Antigone buried the brother, he brings her to Creon to await punishment. He decides to lock her in a chamber. A blind prophet named Teiresias comes and talk to Creon. He tells Creon that the gods will side with Antigone over him and that he needs to release her. He also predicts the death of one of his children for not honoring Antigone’s brother. Creon is shaken into realization and sends servants to cover the brother’s body and he goes to set Antigone free. Soon after, a messenger comes and tells the chorus that Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s future husband, has killed himself after finding Antigone had hung herself and arguing with his father. Eurydice hears this and kills herself. The play ends with the Chorus saying that the gods may punish the proud, but it brings about
When Creon finds out it was Antigone he sentenced her to death. Antigone, felt she did not want to die under Creon’s order so she hung herself. When Haemon (Creon’s son) finds Antigone his fiancé dead, so he kills himself and soon after Creon’s wife stabs herself too, Creon says in pain, “Let me go inside. I don’t know what to do.
Sophocles was born near Athens, Greece in 496 BC he was the son of Sophilus and Jocasta. Because his father was a wealthy member of their small community Sophocles had a educated and nice childhood. From a young age Sophocles's began to win awards for his many academic accomplishments. In his prime Sophocles entered competitions and his plays were brought to the attention of Athens where his playwriting career really took off. Some of his most popular plays and books include: Antigone (441 BC), Electra, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (429 BC), Oedipus at Colonus, Ajax, Epigoni, and Philoctetes.
In view of, Caesar becoming to ambitious, Brutus kills him. As Brutus begins to speak out at the funeral he asks,“Had you rather Caesar living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to all free men?”(Shakespeare 42). With this
Than had Antigone sentenced to the vault until she dies. Haemon her soon to be husband defends Antigone, but Creon ignores him. Teiresias an oracle or fortune teller warns Creon that he will be punished by the gods for his actions. Creon then went to releases Antigone with Haemon to rescue her but she hung herself.
So how would an ancient Greek tragedy and comedy hold up to his standard? Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus and Aristophanes’s Clouds are both great plays but which is the superior work? Whereas both Oedipus Tyrannus and Clouds are fantastic works in their adherence to Poetics in terms of the similarity of their characters
In the play, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus learns about the death of her two brothers (Eteocles and Polynices).Creon, the new king of Thebes passed a decree to the city on the burial of the two brothers. In the decree, Creon declares that Eteocles body should be buried with honor and fame for his courage of saving the city from the enemy. Whiles Polynices body is left unburied and rotting for beasts to feed on because he came to destroy the city and enslave the people. Antigone defies Creon 's decree, buries Polynices body and gets caught. Creon imprisons her
Creon, the antagonist of the play, implements a decree to minimize betrayal from the people of Thebes. The order states that his nephew, Polyneices, may not have a proper burial due to his acts of treason; anyone who defies this rule will be punished. The eponymous character of the play, Creon’s niece, holds a different opinion and gives Polyneices the burial she believes he deserves. Sure enough, Creon catches Antigone and executes her by attempting to starve her to death. Overall, Creon’s demeanor does not work in his favor because the gods give him a fate worse than death.
She gets caught, but since Creon’s son, Haemon, loves Antigone, he decides to imprison her forever under a mountain. They both commit suicide, and soon, Creon’s wife follows suit. In “The Letter from Birmingham
Do Not Ignore the Laws of the Gods Loyalty to the state should not undermine a person’s loyalty to their gods. When the king challenges or ignores the authority of the gods, he is headed for failure. Sophocles trumpets this message throughout his tragic play, Antigone. After Polyneices rebelled against Thebes and killed his brother Eteocles in battle, King Creon decreed that a traitor to the state cannot be buried.
In the classic play by Sophocles, Antigone is a tragic story of the bold Antigone who defied her uncle, King Creonʻs, edict by burying her brother, Polyneices, who died attacking the city of Thebes, trying to take the power away from their brother, Eteocles, who refused to share the throne with Polyneices. Even though Antigone knew that going against Creon and burying her brother would not end well for her, she still choose to risk her life to do what is right. After being caught breaking the law, Antigone is appointed to be locked away, isolated in a cave until she dies, but she hangs herself at the end. At the same time, things for Creon are not looking good, as everyone around him seems to be against him in his decision for punishing Antigone. Everyone Creon cares about kills themselves from a curse that is put on Creon for not following the Godsʻ laws.
However, Creon finds himself in a difficult situation. His son, Haemon, will soon marry Antigone, Creon’s niece who just lost both of her brothers. Antigone decided to give her brother, Polyneices, a proper burial however against Creon’s ruling. And now, Creon must do as he promised - execute the one responsible. CREON.
In Mastin’s, “Ancient Greece- Sophocles”, he states that Sophocles respected Aeschylus so much that he went as far as to imitate his work and style until he developed his own. Sophocles was not a man of many muses, but his inspirations impacted his work
Brutus responds saying that it is not true; it's just that he had a lot on his mind lately. Brutus has a soliloquy that addresses his inner conflict over how to deal with Caesar. "The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power, and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd." Later after Caesar's death, Brutus and Cassius are preparing to assault the armies of Antony and Octavius. Brutus wanted power more than he valued his friendship with Caesar.
What “tragic ideas” do we see expressed in Sophocles’ drama? Answer with reference to the play Antigone. ‘Tragedy is the representation of a serious and complete set of events, having a certain size, with embellished language used distinctly in the various parts of the play, the representation being accomplished by people performing and not by narration, and through pity and fear achieving the catharsis of such emotion’- Aristotle, Poetics, Chapter 6. The play “Antigone” by Sophocles displays many qualities that make it a great tragedy.
Aristophanes and Sophocles both wrote similar arts that have been studied over the years. Antigone by Sophocles and Lysistrata by Aristophanes are two works of art that have many differences but they both assess an important point at the end. Out of all the differences between both of these plays, the one I consider most important is how each play ends according to the type of style it is. Even though the main characters of both of these plays were women, in Lysistrata, both the women and (eventually at the end) the men praise her for her beliefs, while in Antigone, almost everyone goes against what she feels is right which results in her death. The reason why this difference between Antigone (tragedy) and Lysistrata (comedy) is most important