Antigone
The opening events of the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, quickly establish the central conflict between Antigone and Creon. Creon has decreed that the trait...
Antigone Vs. Socrates In The Crito
The play opens after Oedipus' two sons Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other in a civil war for the throne of Thebes. Oedipus' brother in law Creon then ...
Antigone
Being a part of a family forces one to have responsibilities and duties that are needed to be fulfilled. In Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone, Antigone has the r...
Antigone
One commentator has argued in "Antigone" that Antigone's "view of what is right is as twisted as that of Creon." Although I do not believe tha...
Antigone
Literature Portfolio QUESTIONS 1. - Clearly define by specific traits the character of Antigone and Creon. After her mother committed suicide, her father died and...
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After defeating Polynices and taking the throne of Thebes, Creon commands that Polynices be left to rot unburied, his flesh eaten by dogs and birds, creating an obscenity for everyone to see (Antigone, 231). Creon thinks that he is justified in his treatment of Polynices because the latter was a traitor, an enemy of the state, and the security of the state makes all of human life--including family life and religion--possible. Therefore, to Creon's way of thinking, the good of the state comes before all other duties and values. However, the subsequent events of the play demonstrate that some duties are more fundamental than the state and its laws. The duty to bury the dead is part of what it means to be human, not part of what it means to be a citizen. That is why Polynices' rotting body is an obscenity rather than a crime. Moral duties--such as the duties owed to the dead--make up the body of unwritten law and tradition, the law to which Antigone appeals.
