harlem inspired fear

what happens to fear.
 does it fade or disappear...
like a candle freshly blown?
or  go dorment like a thread long been sewn.
and the roam?
does it hide like a child in fright?
or cower and cry
like a puppy in the night.

maybe it just pouts
like a spoiled child with a struck hand.

or does it expand?

antigone character analysis

          Throughout time family has always been important. A family is something that every person needs, large or small family is vital. So what happens when yours is taken away? When cut off from family a person can feel alone and secluded. When a person’s family is threatened, no matter in what way, they can act irrationally to the point where they are mad with revenge and defense. Antigone is a young woman who, when her family was threatened she fought back and hard.

     Antigone tells Ismene “He has no right to keep me from my own.” As Antigone mourns the death of her parents and brothers she is forced to watch her family’s honor slip away. Creon decrees that Antigone’s brother is forbidden from being buried, leaving the corpse to be defiled and mangled by rabid dogs and buzzards. To Ismene she says: “I’ll bury my brother, your brother too, Though you refuse. I will not be found a traitor.” So in her strength and bravery she tries to convince her sister, Ismene that they should break the law for her brother’s honor…but she fails. But this doesn’t stop Antigone, she attempts to bury her brother though she knows death is soon to follow for herself.

       “Then go below, and if you must be loved. Love them! No woman will rule while I live.” Though her life is threatened by Creon she stands firm and determined in her ethics and faith. She is a woman of honor and integrity and is not afraid to die for the rights and respect of her brother and the obedience of her gods. “But justice will not allow this to you…” Antigone will do what needs to be done even if that means a brutal death. She would rather take punishment from man than punishment from the gods.

       “because you have chosen to live and I to die.” Antigone is determined for the sake of what is right to do whatever it takes to have her family buried. Because of her almost obsession for her family’s honor, even in death, she will never give up. “Don’t fear for me. Straighten out you own life.” Honor is an obsessive importance to Antigone and was very important during her time period to society. To be dishonored was a big deal and is still pretty serious today. Antigone has strong spiritual beliefs in the sense that she must please those below much longer then the people of the world. She has her morals straight with herself and her gods. She knows that ultimately what people want cannot be higher than those who put them here.

       Antigone is a smart, strong, and determined young woman who despite her trains and tribulations stuck to her heart until the end, which in actuality didn’t take long to get to. She made the decision to take her own life rather than have someone else take it from her. Antigone is a young woman who, when her family was threatened she fought till the death.