Does Antigone Right To Follow The Law
Whether it is right to follow the laws of the land or to follow the God laws ?
Antigone is considered as the hero of this play as she follows the law of morals and doesn’t care about what the fellow-beings on earth think of her. According to her if anything is correct then she will do that instead of it being against the laws of the land. She comes to Thebes with her sister Ismene to avoid the prophecy that their brothers are going to kill each other in a battle for the Crown of Thebes .Once her mother committed suicide and her father died she felt it as a responsibility to accompany her brothers who were ready to kill each other .She really didn’t wanted that any other person should reap the fruits of the fight between those two, which unluckily …show more content…
The conflict between Antigone and Creon had its origin in the times when Polyneices & Eteocles killed themselves to death, but Eteocles was considered correct in the eyes of the people of Thebes because he was fighting for the peace of the land and on the other hand Polyneices, who was against Eteocles in the battle, was …show more content…
Thereafter ,Antigone came to know about the condition of her brother’ s dead body and she tried to convince Ismene for carrying out the particular plan to which Ismene denied by saying that it was against the orders of the King and it will be wrong to do that ,Antigone made up her mind and went on to bury his(Polyneices) body and put holy water onto him without thinking of what can happen with her in the future as per the orders of his uncle ,Creon..This action of her’s was later on reported to Creon by a guard .From now onwards she becomes an admirable person in the eyes of the audience who doesn’t fears death and such a hero who follows her moral values that she considers as the law of Gods. This angered Creon, as he didn’t expected anyone to take an action against his order and that too one of his own relative ( sister of brave Eteocles).She was taken to the court by the guard in front of angry King. She confessed that she was the one who carried out the burial of Polyneices and she is ready to face any action against herself. This shows the traits of her blood as her father Oedipus was also a man of pride
Antigone is considered as the hero of this play as she follows the law of morals and doesn’t care about what the fellow-beings on earth think of her. According to her if anything is correct then she will do that instead of it being against the laws of the land. She comes to Thebes with her sister Ismene to avoid the prophecy that their brothers are going to kill each other in a battle for the Crown of Thebes .Once her mother committed suicide and her father died she felt it as a responsibility to accompany her brothers who were ready to kill each other .She really didn’t wanted that any other person should reap the fruits of the fight between those two, which unluckily …show more content…
The conflict between Antigone and Creon had its origin in the times when Polyneices & Eteocles killed themselves to death, but Eteocles was considered correct in the eyes of the people of Thebes because he was fighting for the peace of the land and on the other hand Polyneices, who was against Eteocles in the battle, was …show more content…
Thereafter ,Antigone came to know about the condition of her brother’ s dead body and she tried to convince Ismene for carrying out the particular plan to which Ismene denied by saying that it was against the orders of the King and it will be wrong to do that ,Antigone made up her mind and went on to bury his(Polyneices) body and put holy water onto him without thinking of what can happen with her in the future as per the orders of his uncle ,Creon..This action of her’s was later on reported to Creon by a guard .From now onwards she becomes an admirable person in the eyes of the audience who doesn’t fears death and such a hero who follows her moral values that she considers as the law of Gods. This angered Creon, as he didn’t expected anyone to take an action against his order and that too one of his own relative ( sister of brave Eteocles).She was taken to the court by the guard in front of angry King. She confessed that she was the one who carried out the burial of Polyneices and she is ready to face any action against herself. This shows the traits of her blood as her father Oedipus was also a man of pride