All 3 Uses of
resolve
in
Antigone
- Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes.
*resolves = decides
- No man, my lord, should make a vow, for if
He ever swears he will not do a thing,
His afterthoughts belie his first resolve.
resolve = decide; or decision
- Ah! what a wrench it is to sacrifice My heart's resolve; but Fate is ill to fight.†