Sophocles’ Antigone the Antigone is portrayed to the reader as a sort of radical character, unable to bend to the law set upon her by the King of Thebes. Though this may at first be believably seen as truth it is an over simplified version of what happened. She was forced to choose between breaking the laws set upon the people of Thebes and breaking Divine law. Antigone acted with reason weighing all of her options and assessing which would be a decision she could stand behind. Had Antigone been a man
Web. 23 Oct. 2015). Sophocles’s play Antigone explores natural law by revealing a king who ignores it. In the play Antigone Creon has a son, Haemon who is engaged to Antigone. Which is the woman who breaks Creon’s law against burying Polyneices. Antigone buries Polyneices because he is her brother and at that time the people of Thebes believed that you would need a proper burial to travel across the River of Styx, to enter the afterlife. So this means that Creon was trying to take
The purpose of my essay is to prove that Creon was resonable. In order to support my position I will try to bring as many arguments. Firstly, it should be noted that Creon was the ruler and his duty was to take care of his country. As a ruler he had to set an example to others. His orders can not be broken with impunity. Otherwise, his authority would no longer be so obvious, and many have lost in the eyes of his people. Second, Creon guided by a sense of pride and did not want to undergo breaking
Summer Reading Essay The saying “Normal is boring” reveals more than just its prevalence on shoddy t-shirts and trite Tumblr posts. Despite the brevity of the quote, it is apparent that many look down on conforming to society’s standards. However, the majority act as judiciaries in deeming what is “normal” and what is not; likewise, Emily Dickinson, a pariah in her own right, denotes the former in her philosophical interpretation of madness. Hence, irrational behavior is a theme inherent in The
the play Sophocles Antigone, could be perceived differently in present day South Africa, due to the ruling systems in place .The high amplitude of differences between both eras creates a vast comparison between the characters, aesthetics’ and adaptions of the play as opposed to the views that are accepted and presented in present day South Africa. Present day South Africa is represented