Civic Responsibility vs. Religious Duty in Antigone

In Play Antigone, the king of Thebes is faced with a fierce competition with himself, related to family values ​​and religion, he said to the citizens' responsibility held in the city of Thebe so that a new king will come I had it. In theory, decisions by Kryon are not ceremonial. Antigone and Cleon have reasons to believe in its own law, but only one person can attach to the script and how to interoperate with the Sophocles drama itself. Cleon must decide whether to punish Antigone, the princess, the daughter of Oedipus 'daughter, or failing to enforce its own law, as their new leaders look weak in front of Thebes' citizens .

Antigone focuses on conflicts between citizens and spiritual loyalty, conflicts of values ​​between Kryon and Antigone. Kryon claims obedience to artificial law and Antigone highlights the higher responsibility laws for God and family. Therefore, theater is one of the hegemony of the most frequently quoted natural law in Greek tragedies. Cleon, a dramatic hero was mistakenly put in the legal rules of the gods nation to realize only after he lost his family's life

This theater began with arguments about the citizen's religious obligations and civil liability laws being first issued between Antigone and Ismail's sisters. Antigone asked Ismene to burial her brother Polyneices with her, but the king prohibited filling the pain of death. Ismene reminds Antigone that the burial is in violation of the King's law. She said, "I lose to those who have authority" (line 67). Antigone denied that Kryon has authority to burial. This is a sacred duty she has to carry out. She protested. "He has no right to let him go!" (Line 48). She explained that she was willing to fulfill the responsibility for the death's polyethylene case so she said, "I think life is more important than ever for the deceased one / to please the time I have them, and I and I live always "(lines 74 - 76). (From the first line 453 to 55) "- - / Can I transcend the unwritten law and the unchanging heaven / law, I can not think of your judgment" Antigone said, I will take a long-term perspective