Choices That Mean Life or Death In Antigone

Antigone's choice means that the life and death of Antigone's play was written by Greek writer Sophocles in the late 440 B.C. This Greek tragedy uses a combination of literary elements to draw readers' attention. Two such factors are collisions with themes. Most importantly, Mr. Antigon of Sofoklu is dealing with topics such as confrontation of family and state, confrontation between individual and government, and conflict between human and sacred law. Nardo 16).

At Sophocles 'play Antigone, Oedipus' daughter Antigone is facing the option of letting a savage daughter of Polyneices feed a savage dog or to die. Because he is a traitor to the city, the king of Kryon of this land is prohibited from burying Polyneices. Antigone buried his body and decided to face the result. After all, Kryon was convinced that Antigone was released from the death penalty, but his decision was too late, Antigone committed suicide. Her suicide caused suicide in the other two near his Creon king, his son like Antigone's Haemon.

Kryon's perioperative period at Antigone occurred when he proposed Teiresias' prophecy, Antigone was free and suggested to choose to ignore it. The choice of Kryon to hold Antigone prisoners not only led to the death of Antigone himself but also to the deaths of Haemon and Eurydice. At that time, Kryon finally experienced his pain and said, "I was always reckless and ridiculous" (line 1034). At the beginning of Antigone, Kryon was full of excessive pride; finally, his extremism was replaced with shame and humility. Antigon did not have the same reversal of wealth, it disqualified that she was a tragic hero of this story. Kryon had the revelation / enlightenment required for Aristotle's tragic model, but Antigone remained firm until she finally died. In addition, Antigone is not the same size as Kryon. At the end of the script, Kryon lost everything; before the plot started, Antigone lost her two brothers.