Answer:
The play does not agree with Creon
Explanation:
In Oedipus Rex, Creon takes over Thebes as king. The city-state is mired with terrible plague due to Oedipus' murdering his father and marrying his own mother. Amidst power struggle between two sons of Oedipus and their killing, Creon inherits a disastrous state and wants to restore peace and normalcy. In <em>Antigone</em>, he issues a decree against the proper burial of Polynices, the son of Oedipus which Antigone, the daughter opposes. Tiresias' prophecy, Antigone's dissent and Haemon's advice failed to move Creon to change his decision.
The play sends the message that if a king is so adamant in putting his rule into action above a moral standpoint and laws of the gods he is doomed to bring corruption and disaster. Creon reject Antigone;s appeal for she says 'her crime is holy'; he rejects god's will as well. Hence, Creon blames himself for the deaths of his wife, son and Antigone.
I think an essay usually should inform or entertain is true. It doesn't say it always has to, but usually, they do. Hope this helps!
I think the writer means that (especially with the second line) that there is no right or wrong way to live life - we are not guided and everything is very confusing. This is shown by the phrase "pathless wood". I also think the writer is trying to get across that they think you shouldn't think too deeply about life - just <em>live</em>. They express this in the line "It's when I'm weary of considerations". The writer is saying that life is dangerous and cruel, too, with "[O]ne line is weeping / From a twig's having lashed across it open." The writer is comparing the dangerous, ruthless, confusing woods to life itself.
This question is missing the answer options. I have found the complete question online. It is the following:
Which poetic techniques are illustrated in the opening lines “I am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret”?
A. alliteration and metaphor
B. allusion and alliteration
C. apostrophe and simile
D. personification and enjambment
Answer:
The poetic techniques illustrated in the lines are:
D. personification and enjambment
Explanation:
Personification is a literary device in which human actions and characteristics are attributed to inanimate objects. We have personification in lines of the poem we are analyzing here, in "my skin has betrayed me." Of course, there is no way for someone's skin to "betray" anyone. Skin is not a sentient being. This is just a way the author has found of implying something else, with a deeper meaning.
Enjambment happens when a sentence does not end with the line, but keeps on going into the next one. That is what we have in "the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret," where one sentence is spread across three lines.
