Justice in the play 'Antigone' may be manmade or god-given. The two types of justice may harmonize or they may contradict each other. The safest course to take is the harmony of manmade and god-given laws. For divine punishment, divine retribution for human error is inevitable. And those humans who cross the gods find themselves and their descendants saddled with the staying nature and power of curses.
Antigone is a young girl in Oedipus and she has no lines. It is not until Oedipus at Colonus that her character begins to develop.
Antigone and Ismene are sisters. The story centres around the undignified way in which their brother's body has been left (at the time the women of the family would prepare the body for burial), and the king has made it illegal to bury him. Antigone believes that justice would be served if she defies the law, risking death if she is caught, and buries her brother. Ismene abides by the law and does not help to bury the body.
Haimon's main concern is that he be with antigone and that his father would let them be. Creon main concern is that haimon and antigone does not get married.
What would you do to safeguard the lives or memories of those you love is one question that deals with a theme of 'Antigone'. One of the play's themes indeed is the lengths to which one is expected, or expects oneself, to go for loved ones. Is it acceptable to break the laws of the community in which one lives is another question. Another of the play's themes indeed is the choice between respect for the changing human, and the changeless divine, interpretations of right and wrong.
Antigone's crime is violation of a manmade decree that's enacted and enforced by her uncle, Theban King Creon. That violation is prompted by Antigone's respect for the higher moral authority of the gods. For her obedience to the royal decree would put her in direct opposition to god-given procedures for the preparation of the dead for their passage into the realms of the underworld god. Antigone committed the crime of burying her brother Polyneices. According to god-given justice and traditions, this wasn't a crime. But according to the decree of her uncle, Theban King Creon, the deed was forbidden and punishable by death.
a theme for this book would be justice and caring
Antigone is a young girl in Oedipus and she has no lines. It is not until Oedipus at Colonus that her character begins to develop.
I think the overall theme is that people are valuable, whether they have made mistakes or not, and everyone should be treated kindly. Good is better than bad, and we shouldn't just let evil happen.
Antigone and Ismene are sisters. The story centres around the undignified way in which their brother's body has been left (at the time the women of the family would prepare the body for burial), and the king has made it illegal to bury him. Antigone believes that justice would be served if she defies the law, risking death if she is caught, and buries her brother. Ismene abides by the law and does not help to bury the body.
Haimon's main concern is that he be with antigone and that his father would let them be. Creon main concern is that haimon and antigone does not get married.
What would you do to safeguard the lives or memories of those you love is one question that deals with a theme of 'Antigone'. One of the play's themes indeed is the lengths to which one is expected, or expects oneself, to go for loved ones. Is it acceptable to break the laws of the community in which one lives is another question. Another of the play's themes indeed is the choice between respect for the changing human, and the changeless divine, interpretations of right and wrong.
The prophecy was that if Creon did not bury Polynices, his punishment of Antigone will bring a curse down on Thebes. Teiresias prophecy is fufilled by Haimon killing himself..Since Creon would not let Antigone bury her brother(Polynices),Antigone killed herself. So Haimon killed himself because he wanted to be with Antigone because the Creon would not bury the brother of Antigone.
Antigone's crime is violation of a manmade decree that's enacted and enforced by her uncle, Theban King Creon. That violation is prompted by Antigone's respect for the higher moral authority of the gods. For her obedience to the royal decree would put her in direct opposition to god-given procedures for the preparation of the dead for their passage into the realms of the underworld god. Antigone committed the crime of burying her brother Polyneices. According to god-given justice and traditions, this wasn't a crime. But according to the decree of her uncle, Theban King Creon, the deed was forbidden and punishable by death.
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The incentive moment in "Antigone" is where Antigone decides to resolve her ultimate conflict no matter what happens. That ultimate conflict is when she decides to bury her brother Polyneices herself since nobody else would.
The flaw in Antigone that the chorus pointed out to her in Scene 4, line 45 was her lack of respect for human laws. This flaw would lead to her death, and the chorus blamed Antigone for her own demise.
Antigone never married. She was planned to wed Haemon but Creon sent her to be locked away as punishment. After Antigone died in Haemon's arms he committed suicide as he told his father he would do because he was so in love with her.