Lessons In Following The Heart
Lessons in following the Heart
An essay on the tragedy of Antigone
Love by definition means a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or sense of under lying oneness. The play Antigone allows a reader to view how love can cause fear, despair, and death. Love is a strong feeling and the strong feelings changed many lives in the play Antigone. In Antigone the contempt of death enables Antigone to conquer Creon, a ruler who is proud of his wisdom. With Creon's pride he learns too late, and fate destroyed his life.
Eteocles and Polyneices (Antigone's brothers) have fallen due to fighting to gain the throne of Thebes. Creon allows Eteocles to be buried at once, but he orders that no funeral or burial will be held in honor of Polyneices. "Polyneices, who broke his exile to come back with fire and sword against his native city and the shrines of his fathers' gods, whose one......
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