Acting on emotions - sophocles’ plays are designed to instruct his audience members--even those in positions of authority--about how to behave in a morally correct fashion. analyze how acting on emotions (jealousy, suspicion, pride, anger, love) leads to negative effects for the characters in antigone, while acting in a prudent manner indicates wisdom in the characters.

In Sophocles' play, Antigone, most characters act following their emotions, which leads them to negative effects.

Antigone, acting on her love for her deceased brother,  Polynices, decides to bury his body, against the king's orders, which is the cause of all the tragedies. When confronted by the King, Antigone is given the opportunity to repent and stay alive but she follows her pride and decides to die.

Haemon, Antigona's fiancé, also acted on his love for her, and took his own life after she was immured for her crime.

On the other hand, the character of the King, Creon, is presented as a wise, prudent character. He takes hard decitions, based on their advantages and profits to his kingdom. He declares that only Eteocles will be buried while his brother would be left to rot. While this was a harsh law, it was necessary, since Polynices had betrayed the King.

Also, even after Antigone's crime, he offers her the chance to keep living, because he knew that her marriage with Haemon would be more beneficial to the kingdom than her death.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)