Journal of Sophocles

Sophocles Antigone envelopes char turners who resonate leading light levels of hubris. A recurring report present in the playact is ones commitment to chaste determine with regards to what is right and what is wrong. Antigone exceeds the traditional boundaries of a female in superannuated Greek society and shows no hesitance in standing(a) up for what she believes to be virtuously just. Disobeying Creons decree that her deceased brother, Polynices, flummox no burying, Antigone is arrested and brought to Creon to explain the tenability of her actions. Creon is unsure what motivated Antigone to go against his authority so blatantly. She exclaims, Nor did I think your edict had much(prenominal) force that you, a simple mortal, could override the gods  (82). Antigone questions how Creon can be held to such esteem and violate a deceased worldly concern, a brother, from the right to a victorian burial. This is not the honorable act of a king, a leader, preferably a it is a directed vaunting of power. Creon overstepped his bounds and Antigone was there to scrap him.\nThough the decree was dirty by Antigones standards, Creon was not plain acting on a whim. How an individual interprets what is right or what is wrong is subjective and results from their in the flesh(predicate) upbringing and experience. Creon believed his actions to be within the realms of reason. He compared Polynices to that of his devoted partisans, neer at my hands lead the traitor be esteemed above the patriot  (68). Creon popular opinion of Polynices as an unruly man who did not deserve the attentiveness of a proper burial. This is quite the bold act in ancient Greek culture, considering that burial entirelyowed the deceased to find intermission in life later death. The sincerity behind Creons actions is up for debate, but by his give birth principled values, they were ethical. Standing up in the face of opposition is no easy action; Creon and Antigone, though the ir opinions differed, stayed true to their moral codes.\nThe main theme of the play, which encompasses all of...