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.

rudy is the nazi ideal, unfortunately for the nazis his ideal comes in the form of jesse the complete opposite of those who embrace the idea of white supremacy. over the course of the novel, rudy learns that he wants nothing to do with the hitler youth, and because of this his parents are forced to make a bargain; rudy's father is forced into the military, so that his son can remain home.   both liesel and hans influence that young man that rudy becomes. following han's example, rudy puts aside his own hunger to risk his life so that the jewish prisoners might have bread to eat.