Polyneices 'Burial In Sophocles Antigone'

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Parents may not be perfect, but they will do everything in their will to make their child’s life perfect. The play, “Antigone”, is a tragedy written by Sophocles, which depicts a conflict between Antigone and Creon. The conflict of Polyneices’ burial depicts the difference between the views of Antigone, divine law, and the views of Creon, natural law. Antigone conveys, through the problem of her brother’s burial that she believe in the idea of divine law. Antigone believes that the act of giving her brother an honorable burial will “dishonor the laws [that] the gods hold in honor”(Sophocles 4). Antigone views the world’s law as the will of god, and thinks that even if her brother has rebelled he should have a proper burial acceptable to God.

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