Transcribed Image Text from this Question
Option 2: Antigone Discuss the conflict between Antigone and Creon. The two main areas of contention between them are 1) the principles or ideals each one stands for, and 2) the personal feelings that seem to elevate this conflict from a simple dispute over ideals to a tragedy for all concerned. Show how their conflict of ideals is complicated by personal feelings, not the least of which is each one’s pride. Identify places in the play where we see, for example, Creon dismissing Antigone’s arguments because she is both young and a woman. Show us things he says and does that let us know he thinks Antigone is disobedient and rebellious, and that if he does not control her, not only she will become a threat to (what Creon believes is) a man’s rightful authority over family and society, but he, Creon, will lose face. Also show your reader Antigone’s personal stake in the argument – how her pride is hurt as a woman who has just entered into adulthood and has become the moral anchor of her family, and her refusal to let anyone dictate to her because of this pride. 1 page (250) words minimum
(Visited 4 times, 1 visits today)
