Antigone: Love Against Rules

Antigone: Love against rules

This work can perfectly describe what fraternal love means, at the time that Antigone (protagonist) prefers to break any law imposed by royalty to give more merit to his own law, that of family love, the divine law, to buryher brother in the most honorable way she can give her. This work by Sophocles has a context focused on perhaps, its thinking, which through this, aims to demonstrate what love means, the divine, in several people and what they can do in order to keep this in their lives.

It all starts when it is explained that Eteocles and polynices are sharing the throne, as heirs they are, they decided to divide the reign by periods, the problem is that these constantly fought for the throne of Thebes, city yields from these events, until death was causedmutual. Seeing this hateful scene, Creon, the new King of Thebes, decides not to give a dignified burial to polynices, “And how not? Have you not judged Creon worthy of sepulchral honors to one of our brothers, and the other has an dishonored?Antigone, full of hate for this decision, tries to prevent his brother from being punished like this, going, against his sister’s advice to give him the relevant burial, which demonstrates to focus on the work, great love and his influence.

She succeeds (the first time), then Creon discovers and dismiss him, then he is captured to Antigone when he is discovered in the second attempt to carry out the funeral rites, he is condemned to death for his actions, but this also this alsoIt affects his heir, heir, since this was the fiance of Antigone.

Just when the punishment will be given, a blind man tells Creon that with his mistakes made, someone from his same blood will pay with his life, Tiresias, an old man from Creon, tells him that he acate what the old man has said, CreonHe decides to free Antigone, but he finds that he has committed suicide, but the worst, next to him had his son dead by the pain caused by his father, “Hemon has perished, and he of his own hand has poured his blood.”With this news, Creon’s wife, Eurídice, also takes away life, leaving Creon in disgrace, which ends with his two dead loves, in his arms.

This shows that, the approach of the work is the contrast between the inhuman law, which is the common, with the divine law, which is the law that everyone has in their own being, the law of love, how it influences this inPeople and that this law is what for their own merit, must be fulfilled since it is born, until the day when he leaves the world, which in my opinion is correct, but I do not think the same as this work, to act soDesperate, to die literally by someone, it is something extreme, although I respect the focus of these dramatic works, such as Antigone, Sophocles.