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Why is Antigone the ideal ruler?

Antigone would be the best ruler of Thebes because she is not afraid to fight for what she believes in even if it costs her life. She is...

Antigone’s catastrophe is when she commits suicide in the cave by hanging herself with the woven linen of her dress. She realized that...

Antigone does not have a clear anagnorisis. She knew what she wanted from the beginning which was to honor Polynices by burying him. She...

Antigone’s peripeteia is when she is sentenced to death by Creon. It was the EXPIATION that she had to make for burying Polynices. She...

Antigone’s scene of pathos occurred when she was being sentenced to the cave and realized that she was going to die. She accepted her own...

Antigone’s hamartia is her loyalty and willingness to break the law. As a result of this, she breaks Creon’s law by burying her brother...