Antigone-Greek play (moral responsibility)
Date Submitted: 02/22/2003 06:09:14
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 2 pages (598 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 2 pages (598 words)
The story of Antigone deals with two main principle issues. First issue is to do what is morally right and the second issue is to do what is right by the law. After Antigone's brothers die in battle with each other one of her brothers is given an honorable burial and the other was not buried and King Kreon threatened to execute anyone who tried to bury him. Antigone meets with her sister Ismene to …
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…must die because it is the right thing to do.
When approached by King Kreon Antigone responds " Your edict, King was strong, but all your strenth and weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, operative for ever, beyond man utterly."(85) By this statement Antigone is asking Kreon who he thinks he is that he a man can change the immortal laws of God.
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