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Pride is part of what makes Antigone heroic. ... Antigone has the burning desire to honor her brother Polyneices and sacrifices her life out of devotion to principles higher than human law. Antigone’s rebellion is especially threatening because it upsets gender roles and hierarchy. ...
Aristotle’s poetics applied to “Antigone” through moving the audience’s emotions by having painful circumstances strike those that are either friends or related to each other, blood relations. This is between Antigone and Polyneices. ...
Antigone has learned her brothers’ Polyneices and Eteocles have killed each other in battle and King Creon has decided to bury Eteocles with military honor. ...
Antigone will not stand for such disgrace made upon her brother Polyneices, she will bury him with love and passion, “Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way”(Prologue. ...
Antigone is loyal to her beliefs and puts the laws of the gods ahead of laws of the states.
Approximate Word count = 734
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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