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I've been searching and so far i haven't gotten anywhere.
2007-09-12 10:59:17 · 5 answers · asked by Angel G 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Sophocles' "Antigone" is important because it addresses the conflict between allegiance to the state and obedience to its laws, and adherence to a higher code of morals and ethics dictated by religious beliefs.
The city-state of Thebes has just emerged from a civil war between two brothers vying for the throne. Both are killed in battle. The new king, their uncle Creon, decides that one brother should be revered as a hero and buried with full military honors. The other brother is condemned as a traitor and left outside the city to rot.
Creon's niece Antigone feels she owes it to her brother to bury him with the proper religious rites. She disobeys the law of the state to follow her own conscience -- something her sister Ismene does not have the courage to do. Antigone pays for her decision with her own life.
A modern version of "Antigone" (by French playwright Jean Anouilh) addresses the same issue.
2007-09-12 11:10:10 · answer #1 · answered by Civis Romanus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I hope you answer me after seven years of this discussion. Besides that is important Why Professors give us this play to read? I have to star a discussion in my college class and then write a 6 page essay but what is the main point? why Antigone? It seems to me the main character was Creon?
2014-09-13 05:29:54 · answer #2 · answered by sol 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only Antigone I have coming to mind is Oedipus's daughter. Oedipus accidentally killed his father and married his mother(he was raised by another couple) and had children with her. Antigone and Isimene were his daughters. Oedipus's mother/wife, Jocasta, ends up killing herself. Oedipus gouges out his own eyes and is then banished.
It's by Sophocles. I just read Oedipus the King.
I guess try searching Oedipus- and you might be lucky and find some other stuff!
2007-09-12 11:07:46 · answer #3 · answered by n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throughout the tragedy, the characters downfalls are their pride. The king has pride...Antigone has intense pride in her family...and it ultimately causes her downfall, and the deaths of many. There are conflicts with religion, government, family, and especially pride. Let me know what else you need to know.
2007-09-12 11:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Important? I guess because it is one of the few extant Greek tragedies.
2007-09-12 11:07:54 · answer #5 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋