Antigone Theme" What message is presented about the nature of wisdom?
- Who commented on the nature and consequences of wisdom, and where?
- How does it seem to be defined?
- What do we learn about its importance?
- Line - wisdom is the key to success
- Line 1469 - Wisdom taught by others
- Line 232 - Example of Creon being unwise
- Line 194 - Knows the wisdom but does not show it in his judgement.
- Line 1094 - Wisdom is appreciated in this society, teaching have wisdom and accept wisdom
- Line 1101 - did not listen
- Line 806 - constantly taking advice - Constant sharing of wisdom
- Page 77 - Close to finding greatness but blocking advice takes that away
- Line - Subconsciously admitting he is wrong, lack of insight to see their own wrong doings
- Wisdom taught after tragedy happens, does anyone listen to the wisdom in the play before the tragedy.
- Line 1218- makes choices based on pride not wisdom
- Line 70-74 - Ismene already wiser than other characters.. not mirrored by other characters.
- Line 1466 - Wisdom means the ability to learn, whether from someone else or your own experiences
- Line 1130 - People are going to fail, but wisdom is the ability to learn from it
- Line 775 - Creon is given advice, but he has the free will to either listen to or reject the advice
- Line 200 - Wisdom is correlated with social status
- Line 1230 - Creon's reversal
- Line 86 - People's experience determines how wise they are
- Line 846 - Creon says Haemon has empty wisdom because he has no basis for his beliefs
- Neither Creon nor Antigone has wisdom, hence the reason they both were killed. They may be wise in their own ways, but neither were right
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