Complete 3 page APA formatted essay: Greek.Download file to see previous pages... Antigone’s actions have profound effects because of her gender as a woman (Shopocles 12). Her rebellion becomes much

Complete 3 page APA formatted essay: Greek.

Antigone’s actions have profound effects because of her gender as a woman (Shopocles 12). Her rebellion becomes much more threatening because it interferes with hierarchy and gender roles. Antigone overturns one of her culture’s fundamental roles by not being passive. When she is faced with injustices, Antigone progressively and aggressively reacts to such injustices (Anonymous 3). Antigone purely plunges on her firm convictions and self belief about what is right and wrong. Ultimately, she has to fight for what is right. When Polyneices die, Antigone does not ask for permission to bury him from Creon but instead, she rashly takes matters into her hands alone. This is a result of the anger she gets into for losing her only true love. Later on in the play, Antigone decides to commit suicide by killing herself in a cave instead of satisfying the needs of Creon. If Antigone was not that imprudently hasty, Creon would have spared her life, because he was on his way to release her and have Polyneices accorded a proper burial. When Antigone is sentenced to death, everyone in Thebes sympathizes with her. Her course of action therefore makes her a tragic hero. The whole play revolves around the burial of Polyneices. Antigone’s incestuous love and impetuous personality makes her disregard King Creons will leading to the death of not only herself but also Haemon, her groom to be as well as the king Creon’s son, who killed himself after learning that Antigone had killed herself. Relationship between Socrates’ Ideas found in the "Crito" that can be applied to Antigone’s Choices Antigone preparing to die does make sense within the tragic world-view. However, the crito later turns to be an aporetic odd way because the reasons that Socrates professed does not make sense in the world-view of Platonists. According to Platonist’s principles, Socrates was supposed to run away from prison and failing to do so make her actions unjust. Like Antigone, he says that the narrative of his life is over and that is why he had no reason to escape. In her own terms, Antigone’s martyrdom was much worth it, while at greater length. the martyrdom of Socrates was not at all worth it. Their terms and beliefs are depicted in Crito of Plato and the Antigone of Sophocles respectively. Antigone’s position is presented as vindicated by events. Antigone’s choice of confronting death by honoring the corpse of her brother leaves her in a dilemma, just like that of Agamemnon at Aulis, since they both have to make alternative choices that are wrong. On page 74, she says “unscrupulously doing what is relevant”, (Shopocles 7) meaning that she believes she does not do any wrong by breaking Creon’s edict in order to honor her brother. Contrary, she believes what she does is what Bernard Williams calls a practical necessity (Allen 561). The difference between Antigone’s tragedy and Agamemnon’s tragedy is that the tragedy of Agamemnon is his, but not of Cassandra, while Antigone’s tragedy is not hers but Creons. Crito’s intention is to fully defend Socrates’ martyrdom choice (Allen 559). The Platonism that Socrates argues about in Plato’s crito contains resources that refute the arguments against accepting his martyrdom. Socrates Crito 49c states that it is wrong to revenge an injustice with an injustice.