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Blog Week #7
Feb. 23rd, 2012 01:49 pmPart 1.
I do believe that Antigone’s character meets the criteria of a tragic hero in this story. Antigone’s situation arises all of the feelings of horror, pity and sympathy. Horror in regards to her situation of civil disobedience which resulted in her tragic death. Pity for her in that she is trying to do what is right yet she is completely alone. “He has no right to keep me from my own” says Antigone to her sister Ismene in regards to her wish to bury her brother properly. “But defy the city? I have no strength for that” is how Ismene replies to her sister when asked for support. I feel sympathy for Antigone as she seems to be a family oriented and wishes to give her deceased brother the proper burial he deserves yet her feelings are supposed to be hidden as Creon has set a law that “forbids anyone to bury him, even more mourn him”. I feel sympathy for her because It would be terrible not even being allowed to mourn the death of one’s own brother. I don’t think that Creon quite meets all of the criteria of being a tragic hero in the story.
I’m not sure I would change the name of this story to Creon. However, I suppose his character is of nearly the same importance in the story and the readers would potentially focus more on his character and the change of view he experiences as the story progresses had it been named after him
Part 2. Looking ahead
Extended Metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
We have been exposed to a number of extended metaphors within the literature we have previously read within this course. One example of this concept can be seen in the story Evaline. The sentence that uses this concept is: “the boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist” and the reason this example is an extended metaphor is because the literature is implying that the boats whistle has a certain emotional connection in the way that it sounds. This sentence makes the boat seem to have almost a human like quality or a feeling we might witness in something that is living.
I do believe that Antigone’s character meets the criteria of a tragic hero in this story. Antigone’s situation arises all of the feelings of horror, pity and sympathy. Horror in regards to her situation of civil disobedience which resulted in her tragic death. Pity for her in that she is trying to do what is right yet she is completely alone. “He has no right to keep me from my own” says Antigone to her sister Ismene in regards to her wish to bury her brother properly. “But defy the city? I have no strength for that” is how Ismene replies to her sister when asked for support. I feel sympathy for Antigone as she seems to be a family oriented and wishes to give her deceased brother the proper burial he deserves yet her feelings are supposed to be hidden as Creon has set a law that “forbids anyone to bury him, even more mourn him”. I feel sympathy for her because It would be terrible not even being allowed to mourn the death of one’s own brother. I don’t think that Creon quite meets all of the criteria of being a tragic hero in the story.
I’m not sure I would change the name of this story to Creon. However, I suppose his character is of nearly the same importance in the story and the readers would potentially focus more on his character and the change of view he experiences as the story progresses had it been named after him
Part 2. Looking ahead
Extended Metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
We have been exposed to a number of extended metaphors within the literature we have previously read within this course. One example of this concept can be seen in the story Evaline. The sentence that uses this concept is: “the boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist” and the reason this example is an extended metaphor is because the literature is implying that the boats whistle has a certain emotional connection in the way that it sounds. This sentence makes the boat seem to have almost a human like quality or a feeling we might witness in something that is living.
