Laws of the City-State vs. Higher Law as Seen in Antigone

The city national law and the higher rule that Antigone saw were in ancient Greece, and since 800 BCE new ideas became the forefront of social governance. These ideas brought more organized leadership and government, where decisions are mainly based on majority voting. This system takes the form of a city state, a large autonomous city. These city states are based on the principle of "freedom, optimism, secularism, rationalism ... and the glory of the body and spirit". Accompanying these principles is the obligation of being strongly loyal to the city and the willingness to shed blood for improvement.

The drama "Antigone" is a tragedy of Sophocles. One of the themes of the play is religion and nation. This theme is seen in the play. According to the laws of the gods, Antigone is a supporter of religion, king of Thebes, Kryon is the country. During the play, Kryon violated the law to bury the brothers of Antigone. This violates the laws of the gods. This is the reason for most of the story's confrontation. This struggle helps shape the tragic shape by providing different readers a different role.

Opponents January 3, 2013 Moral and Political Law The theme of Antigone is the fight between political law and moral law; the difference in obeying the law is that it is a law and follows its own morality. That's right. The role of Antigone faced this struggle in the face of Kryon's rejection of carrying out the funeral of Antigone's brother Polinis. Ancient Greeks believed that it was forbidden to enter the afterlife without proper burial. This theme is through Antigone. Antigoneze is that people sometimes need to learn from their mistakes. This theme is represented by the last four lines of the script. They read that there is no happiness without wisdom, and they will succumb to God without wisdom. A prideful old man learns wisdom, but big characters are always punished. These lines are an important part of the drama. They symbolize Kryon's bad resolution, his contempt over God, and the punishment he experienced.

Antigone Sophocles's Antigone talks about the struggle between Antigone and Creon. The play was held around 442 BC. The state of the city of Thebes. The story evolves around the burial of Polyneices. Polyneices led the army to attack his brother, King of Thebes, Etocles. They killed each other in battle, and the new Klien king ruled that only Etocles would be buried as Polyneices was his opponent of Antigone. It is easy to recognize the use of satire throughout work. As everyone knows, the author Sophocles has adapted his plot to the line of tragic satire over and over again and again. Then he will bring the line previously spoken in the drama to form the climax of the drama (Johns). Sophocles often uses "tragic sarcasm" in Antigone and in other scripts he wrote. "Satire of tragedy", the words of the character continue