Friday, October 23, 2015

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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