'Journal of Sophocles'

'Sophocles Antigone envelopes characters who resonate famed levels of hubris. A repeat theme register in the childs play is ones commitment to dear values with regards to what is make up and what is wrong. Antigone exceeds the traditional boundaries of a female in ancient classical society and shows no hesitance in standing up for what she believes to be chastely just. Disobeying Creons ordination that her departed brother, Polynices, receive no burial, Antigone is arrested and brought to Creon to explain the cause of her actions. Creon is unsure what actuate Antigone to go against his means so blatantly. She exclaims, Nor did I think your legislation had much(prenominal) squelch that you, a unpolluted mortal, could override the gods  (82). Antigone questions how Creon mickle be held to such esteem and slip-up a decedent man, a brother, from the slump to a right(a) burial. This is not the honorable act of a king, a leader, sort of it is a direct display of power. Creon overstepped his jump and Antigone was there to argufy him.\nThough the decree was unjust by Antigones standards, Creon was not solely acting on a whim. How an individual(a) interprets what is right or what is wrong is native and results from their personal gentility and experience. Creon believed his actions to be at bottom the realms of reason. He compared Polynices to that of his addicted partisans, Never at my hands entrust the traitor be honored above the patriot  (68). Creon judgment of Polynices as an ungovernable man who did not deserve the revere of a fit burial. This is quite the unfearing act in ancient Greek culture, considering that burial aloneowed the deceased to find quietness in liveness after death. The sincerity behind Creons actions is up for debate, but by his own scrupulous values, they were ethical. Standing up in the mettle of opposition is no easy work; Creon and Antigone, though their opinions differed, stayed line up to their moral codes.\nThe briny theme of the play, which encompasses all of...'