I understand it was the said to be because of the laws of the gods but what i don't understand what exactly where they?
2007-04-07 14:45:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Religions urge the burial or burning of bodies to allow them to enter the next world. To leave a body to rot, where the animals could eat it would keep the deceased from entering the state of grace.
Thus to not dispose of a body by burial would damn her brother to hell and Antigone has a moral obligation to her brother to ensure that he does not go to hell.
2007-04-07 14:53:37 · answer #1 · answered by ajtheactress 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes - because she believed that both of her brothers deserved to be treated the same. It was decreed by Creon that because her brother Polynices had fought against Thebes, his body would left out to rot while her other brother is given full military honors. Antigone believes this is against the will of the Gods. She says not buryinghim is against "...the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of today or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth." Basically that every man deserves to be buried - dust to dust. Burying the dead is always the right thing to do. For this reason, and for the love of her brother and the honor of her family, she risks her life to bury him. Pax - C.
2007-04-07 14:59:09 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is always moral to do that which is right, regardless of what the law says. She was doing the right thing and everyone really knew it.
2007-04-07 14:53:04 · answer #3 · answered by John B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋