Antigone Written by SophoclesEssay Preview: Antigone Written by SophoclesReport this essayThe story of Antigone written by Sophocles focuses on betrayal, choices, and the different consequences people make because those choices. In the story, Antigone decides to bury her brother, Polyneices, who Creon believes to be a traitor to his kingdom. Antigone decides to bury her brother despite Ismenes wishes and Creons orders. Creon soon discovers that Antigone has buried Polyneices. He then sentences her to an execution. According to German Philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Antigone represents the tragic collision of right against right, with both sides equally justified. My personal thoughts on the events are very bias due to my religious and personal views. I believe that Antigone and Creon are acting unrealistic so I found it hard to support either of them.
From Antigone to Polyneices, the story of Antigone in the Greek Theology is far thicker than I expected. It covers a considerable number of subjects, many of them extremely important and often difficult to comprehend. But it’s very much a beautiful and wonderful book. For those of us who aren’t used to this type of writing, it can feel like reading a page filled with spoilers from a very short story at the very end. You can see the full story here.
I’ll be starting with one of my favorite Greek Theologians—the “Pale” writer of the age. I think of it as a kind of ‘Bertrand Russell’ sort of story. It was written by the philosopher Plutarch, who was a master of the Greek metaphysics, but also a master of Greek logic. He wrote a very short piece in which he introduces a small group of the first two Greek texts to their people, explaining how they could be transformed in their own time by that new knowledge. This book is absolutely thrilling! And I couldn’t be happier with my reaction to it! This is the sort of thing that is a big deal to people outside of the Greek community. But especially the “Bertrand Russellians, or Platonic Critique of Truth’ kind of narrative. While I do enjoy the prose, my only negative reaction by the way was because the whole chapter just reminded me of my parents’ Bible. It reminded me of how they never explained theology to us. But this book just keeps coming back together and you just stay with it, and even look at how great it is. I think the best way to read it is to find out how great it is. All the pieces of what I want to find out along the way is in that sort of ‘Pale’ sort of text.
This article I wrote on the subject of how to find out where the Bible got all this information is based on a rather old passage in Genesis 14. (This is actually a bit late in the history of this text, and there are many of the original passages, but that should get it out of the way before jumping in to it!) The New York Times is apparently still waiting for me if I take the time right now to look up the whole context of Genesis 14, and I don’t feel too bad about it if it’s all wrong. I also don’t feel especially bad about seeing this one out with the usual pomp and circumstance of trying to discover some new revelation. I would just get more and more upset if the Bible got it wrong, and that’s okay. There is still a point where I’m thinking, is it all wrong? If someone says something wrong, I should take it at face value just and be okay about it. And then that’s okay, too! What’s wrong with that? Well, it’s always wrong. I think if I read this one from right now, what will turn you around and do me in at all? The answer can be found in Genesis 18:4 – which makes me a little less sympathetic as a scholar. What’s wrong with 18:4 is the fact that at least half of the verses are missing, which is an interesting interpretation. I think about this a lot in my research. You can see that I
As I said in the first paragraph that Antigone has a desire to bury her brother, mainly influenced by a religious sense, she believes that if she doesnt bury her brother, his spirit will be confined to walk the earth with no place for peace. Sophocles views of the gods are vaguer in Antigone than in Oedipus Rex, one of his earlier writings. In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles views are more obvious, the thought that you dont understand what the gods have planned out for you. In Antigone, Antigone believes that religious beliefs are more important than Creons order. She even believe that Ismene should make the same choice that is said in Line 27-28 on page 640, “Now you can prove what you are, A true sister, or a traitor to your family,” This is why I believe she is unrealistic, she seems to accuse her sister of being a horrible person even though she is just abiding by the law. I also believe her to be childish by what shes doing. When I say this, I mean when a person of authority makes it known you cant do this; she does it anyway like child.
As much as I have been ranting on Antigone, I also believe that Creon is also in the wrong due to the fact that he has so much hate towards the family. I believe that even an enemy of a family would have sympathy for his family. I do like his views on loyalty that he knows he has earned his peoples loyalty. But I still believe him to be cruel and unreasonable to be sympathetic. I liked him better in Oedipus Rex; he was more likable and was the superstitious character that had to convince Oedipuss naive personality. He seems meaner as I have been saying. In Scene 5, Teiresias come to Creon after he had sent Antigone to her execution, to starve in a cave; he has a conversation with Creon that is basically summarized in these quotes on Page 671 and Line 37, “What glory is it to kill a man who is dead?” 673 and Line 75-76, “The one in a grave before her death, the other, dead, denied the grave. This is your crime.” Teiresias agrees with my opinion that he is completely unrealistic about Polyneices and Antigone.
Based on the story, I believe that