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Antigone Essay Research Paper Antigone did the

Antigone Essay, Research Paper


Antigone did the right thing by defileing


Creon’s strict orders on burying Polynices because the unalterable laws


of the gods and our morals are higher than the blasphemous laws of man.


Creon gave strict orders not to bury Polynices because he lead a rebellion,


which turned to rout, in Thebes against Creon, their omnipotent king. Antigone


could not bare to watch her brother become consumed by vultures’ talons


and dogs. Creon finds out that somebody buried Polynices’ body and sent


people out to get the person who preformed the burial. Antigone is guilty


and although she is to be wed to Creon’s son, Haemon. He sentences her


to be put in a cave with food and water and let the gods decide what to


do with her. He was warned by a blind profit not to do this, but he chooses


to anyway, leaving him with a dead son, a dead wife, and self-imposed exile.


Antigone had good reasons for her actions.


She did obey the rules of her gods, which were that any dead body must


be given a proper burial, with libatations. This would prevent the soul


from being lost between worlds forever, along with wine as an offering


to the gods (page 518- side note). Nor could Antigone let Creon’s edicts


go against her morals (lines 392-394). She chooses to share her love, not


her hate (line 443). She couldn’t bare to see one family member be chosen


over the other because of what a king had decided was right, which she


contravened. Why condemn somebody who stood up for what they believed in

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and is now dead for it anyway? Bringing homage to the family was very important


to Antigone (line 422-423).


The gods’ laws come before mortal laws


in Antigone’s point-of-view, which is how I believe also. In death, you


will answer to your god and no man will have control of your fate in the


world that lies hereafter. Therefore by obeying the gods, hopefully, will


result in a happy afterlife, which are what most people strive for in ancient


times and now. If man does not honor you for noble efforts, your gods’


will. Antigone’s act was honorable. She stood up to the highest of powers


so she could honor her brother, knowing the consequence would be death.


Most likely she figured there is only a certain amount man can do to you,


so she might as well stand up for not only her family and beliefs, but


her gods as well (lines 377-389).Creon could have easily changed his mind,


and there were fair amounts of warning. But his decisions lead him into


an empty life that could have been adverted if only he would have put his


pride aside for a while. Simply because he was too egotistical and too


tempermental, his son died (line 986) along with his wife (lines 1080-1081),


which left him hapless and with a deep sense of deplorable sorrow leading


to self-imposed exile (lines 1119-1126).


Antigone, Heamon, and Creon’s wife all


could have been saved if only one man could have put aside his pride. It


is clear that Antigone is not the one who did the wrong in this story,


but Creon.

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