Essays on Antigone

They tell Creon has vowed that no one shall bury him, that no one shall weep for him, but that his corpse shall lie in the fields,…. for carrion birds to dig while they hunt for food.” Creon, the king, has ceremoniously buried one of Antigone’s brothers while refusing to…

Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone” was composed in or around 441 BC (Honig). The play is set in Thebes, where two heirs, Eteocles and Polynices, contend for Oedipus’ kinship throne. Eteocles starts the war by sitting on the throne against Oedipus’ orders. Both of them are killed on the battlefields. Creon ascends…

Antigone is a tragedy play written around 442 BCE by Sophocles about the burial of Antigone’s brother Polynices against the rule of Crone and the country, as well as the tragic effects of her act of civil disdain. Othello is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare that was written around…

Antigone is a play with a theme of political tragedy and a heroic literary character that has been applied to modern society across a broad spectrum. Theatrical version is one of the best elements of plays in the literature intended to relive the incidents in the historical and cultural context…