Antigone's Pride

Analytical Essay # 11213

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Antigone's Pride

A paper that investigates Sophocles "Antigone".

680 words () | 1 source | 2000 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at the novel "Antigone" by Sophocles and shows that both Antigone, sister of two fallen brothers, and Creon, an over prideful ruler, take their pride too far and in the end everyone they ever cared for dies. The paper shows that Sophocles combines both language and plot events to show the theme that excessive pride can destroy a person.

From the Paper:

"A great example of where Sophocles uses language or more specifically dialog is when Antigone is telling Ismene of the news of their brothers deaths, the proclamation Creon had given that Polynices, brother of Antigone, could not be buried and her plan to bury him. "Will you lift up his body with these bare hands and lower it with me?" "What you'd bury him-when a law forbids the city?" "Yes! He is my brother and-deny it as you will- your brother too. No one will ever convict me of a traitor.?"(Pg. 18.)"