Some hours later, creon in the palace was startled by a shout, "against your orders polyneices has been buried." he hurried out to be confronted with the guards he had set on the dead body and with antigone. "this girl buried him," they cried. "we saw her. a thick dust-storm gave her chance. when it cleared, the body had been buried and the girl was making an offering to the dead." "you knew my edict? " creon asked. "yes," antigone replied. "and you transgressed the law? " "your law, but not the law of justice who dwells with the gods," antigone said. 'the unwritten laws of heaven are not of today nor yesterday, but from all time." ismene weeping came from the palace to stand with her sister. "i do it," she said. but antigone would not have that. "she had no share in it," she told creon. and she bade her sister say no more. "your choice was to live," she said, "mine to die." as she was led away to death, she spoke to the bystanders: — . . behold me, what i suffer because i have upheld that which is high. – “the royal house of thebes,” edith hamilton what evidence supports the idea that antigone represents a tragic heroine? check all that apply. she is similar to ismene. she is cast out from society. she bravely defends her values. she loves and cares for her father. she breaks rules in the name of good. she sacrifices herself to right a wrong.

The evidence that supports the idea that Antigone represents a tragic heroine is:

* She lives by her own moral code.

* She sacrifices herself for her values.

* She is forced to make a difficult decision.

Explanation:

Antigone has always been the opposite of her sister Ismene and is always represented and a tomboy girl like many female heroes in history, She showed her personality since she was a child when she didn't want to follow the rules and limits that were set upon her for being a girl and besides she likes to be far from the feminine perfection of Ismene, she also fights for her ideals even when that means to sacrifice important personal things or connections.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.