The Obsessive Compulsive fwame wesistant suit

There are always times when I feel as if there are things I want to change about myself, things that I love, and then there are the things that you like…but at the same time would do anything to get rid of. My “fwame wesistant” suit would be that I can sometimes be a bit of a neat freak, or as many people tell me that I might have a slight case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This is the one thing that I love sometimes, and then other times I want to burn this part of my suit. My desire for everything to be in the right order and in a perfect line can sometimes get in the way of what I need to accomplish. For example, my assignment book is color-coded. This might seem normal when I first tell you, but then you hear that I use the exact same pen for the entire year. A blue STAPLES pen to be exact. If I forget this “special” pen at home, it becomes a huge issue. I can’t write down my assignments during the day at school until I find that exact blue pen. Also, if someone writes on the side of my notebook, or scratches something out, I flip out and feel the need to write the entire thing over…even if it is three pages long. Now, you are probably thinking, she is absolutely crazy. Yes, I would have to admit, I do think I am a little crazy when it comes to these things. The need for my shoes to be in a straight line, or my closet to be organized according to occasion (fancy, school, weekend) is something that I love, and that I hate. I want to “buin my fwame wesistant” suit of my perfectionism when it takes extra time out of my day to fix these things. It can be so time consuming to organize things the way I want them to be, even when these little things in the big picture of life really don’t matter. It is important to recognize which part of your “fwame wesistant” suit you would like to buin because it makes you think about what if you weren’t that way? Would I still be the same Morgan? Probably not…because this is something that defines me, and something that everyone knows about me. This is the time when I contradict what I have just said before, and tell you that I love this part of my character. I don’t believe you can change someone’s character by “buining their fwame wesistant suite” because then its not truly who you are, or what defines them as a person. So, not only do I HATE my obsessive compulsivness when I get made fun of, or if someone provokes me (when someone feels the need to make me angry and take a RED pen in my assignment notebook that is all BLUE), but I also love it because it is a part of my personality.

Antigone vs. Creon

As I read the title of Antigone, I knew immediately that the most important character of the play must be Antigone. But no, I was wrong. Creon, Antigone’s uncle, shares equal importance to Antigone, if not more. It is very interesting to think about who is a more important character. Is it Antigone? The Sophoclean tragic hero who causes these events and tragedy in the play. Or, is it Creon? The traditional Greek hero who creates many problems because of Antigone’s actions.
I believe that each character, Creon and Antigone, are of great importance in this play because each character serves to show each other’s weaknesses. Just as the saying goes, “you can’t have the chicken without the egg”…you can’t have Antigone without Creon. Because of Antigone’s choices and decisions in the need to bury her brother, Polynices, Creon’s poor decisions and flaws start to shine through. Antigone is the character that actually exposes Creon’s tragic flaws. Without Antigone, these flaws would not be shown and the plot would not exist in this play.
The idea of a traditional tragic figure is defined when the character is an inherently good person who falls from greatness. In the end, this character recognizes his or her responsibility for their behavior and accepts their fate with dignity. Creon fits in this category perfectly because of what he does in this play. One could argue that he is an inherently good person, but he does fall from greatness because of the decisions he makes after Antigone buries her brother, and in the end, he recognizes his fate when both his son and wife have committed suicide, and he is left with no one in his family. Because Creon’s laws are very extreme, Antigone must rebel against them with extreme actions. The idea of burying her brother is risking everything in her life, which then provokes Creon to perform the terrible incidents that not only ruins his reputation, but also hurts the lives of many.
After reading through Antigone and thinking about who is the more important character, I honestly cannot pick between the two. They both play off of each other so much and without Antigone or Creon, the tragic character and tragic flaws would not be apparent this play, which is known as a “tragedy”. In order for a play to be a tragic, tragic characters and flaws need to be shown. (423)