Poetics refers to treatises, theories, practices, or feelings and utterances that relate to verse. The term applies to 'Antigone', because the play is a tragedy. One of the ancient Greek requirements of a tragedy is its being written in verse.
No, Antigone never gets married in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. -- 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone is engaged to her first cousin, Theban Prince Haemon. But the engagement...
That she decides upon a course of action and never strays from it is the way in which Antigone is determined in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, someone who is...
No, the title cannot be "Creon and Antigone" for the play "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.). Specifically, a change in title has to be accompanied by the introduction of new material....
Her disrespect of Creon and her rejection of Ismene are Antigone's atē in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.). Specifically, atē describes the giving in to foolish, ruinous impulses....
She is a tragic hero. More literally, in the beginning she suffers for having lost her brothers (her parents) and one not being given a funeral. she suffers because she buries her brother out of the...