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Kathy Parks
January 20, 2000
Ms. Wu
Tech-Prep

Part I:
A.
One character in Antigone that felt that the only thing that needed to be done but feel in the long run was Antigone herself. Antigone was so eager to bury her brother that she killed herself before Creon could. Antigone was very stubborn that she never thought about the consequences that she would have to go through if she was to ever do what she wanted to do. I would say that also that Creon was very stubborn also. Creon felt so threatened to me because of the town to make such harsh rules on controlling the town that he in the long run also suffered at the end the book. Creon when quoting very percisely to Antigone that her brother should never see to be buried because he felt that he was not man enough and didn't die for anything worth anything. Creon then not lossed Antingone to bravery but also he lost his own son who who he would never see again. Creon suffered in a way that his rule was disobeyed by Antigone and he lost his son that he will never see again due to his foolishness.

The most rightful thing that Antigone did was follow in what she believed in gave her brother the proper burial that she felt that he deserved in the first place. Antigone was the brave heart of the book even though she was scared of death, but because women did not play much of a role in the town she had a reputation of what a real man would and should do if anything had to ever come that far. A question always arises in the air, would Antigone had lived to see the next year or century if she didn't kill herself? I say that htere was a twenty percent chance that Antigone would have seen one more year of life if she didn't kill herself, but with Creon as the ruler there would be less of a chance of surviving then dying. Creon was very cruel in his old ways that if things didn't go the way that he wanted them to then off with your head. You could barely sneeze or cough in the town that I say belonged to Creon without being questioned for it.

B.
Some literature portrays the conflict of heros vs fate. In Sophocles's Oedipus their is a main character who portrays this conflict the most in the book and that character in which everyone knows is Oedipus. Oedipus sought to do everythng his way and seeked find things out in the long run to be very hard. Oedipus was considered a hero but seeked fate because he was never able to fulfill his goal that he believe should be recognized. Oedipus himself was the hero being that he thought that anyone whom killed the king should die. Oedipus promoted that anyone that killed the king should die when in the true fact of the matter it was really him whom killed the king. As things went along that the true killer should soon be killed Oedipus made things harder on himself when sleeping with his mother and making her the queen of the throne. Oedipus then became guilty of all allegations and charges of commiting the crime that he then felt that he was being punished for his crime in the first place.