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The world view of Antigone is the perception of the world as the passage through life into death. She believes that she will spend more time in the world of the dead than of the living. And so she wants to pay attention to the passions of life and the respect for the dead. This is why she says that she doesn't want to carry life's hatreds over into the treatment or mistreatment of the dead. It also is why she sees the ties of blood and of community as important connections that don't end with death. A word that sums up Antigone's world view is mercy. The world view of Theban King Creon is the immediacy of life, the importance of the here and now. He believes that a ruler must be focused on the lasting nature of his own rule. And so he wants to pay attention to the control of life by way of an ordered society in which the power is centralized at the very top. This is why he says that obedience to the laws that the ruler enacts and enforces is the supreme good, disobedience the supreme evil. It also is why he's devoted to this dictatorial view througout all aspects of his personal and professional life. A word that sums up the King's world view is 'order', at all costs.
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The quote is a reply by Antigone to King Creon, in Sophocles' play "Antigone".
Does Antigone or Creon suffer more in 'Antigone'?
Antigone suffers more than Creon in the short term, but Creon suffers more in the long term in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. -- 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone suffers immediately, in this world, because she receives the death penalty and commits suicide. But she will be receive a hero's welcome in the Underworld of the afterlife. In contrast, King Creon loses not his life, but everyone and everything that gives that life meaning: family, home, job, and reputation. The suffering will not end with his earthly life, because he then will be accountable for his misdeeds for all eternity in the Underworld of the afterlife.
What was the reason that Antigone gave for disobeying Creon's orders in the play 'Antigone'?
That the law conflicts with divine law is the reason that Antigone gives Creon for disobeying his orders in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone says that burial and funeral rites are promised by the gods to all Thebans. She says that she must choose obedience to divine law over human law because the gods, not mortals, rule this world and the afterlife. Breaking a human law means death in this world whereas breaking a divine law has consequences in both this world and the afterlife.
How does Antigone explain her actions to Creon in 'Antigone'?
That she is in the right and that he is in the wrong is the way in which Antigone explains her actions to Creon in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone disobeys a royal edict in order to obey a divine law and cherished Theban tradition. She defends her actions as respect for divinely expressed will since the gods rule in this world and in the Underworld of the afterlife. She criticizes her uncle, King Creon, for issuing an edict that denies to Thebans he perceives as enemies the below ground burial rights that the gods promise to all Thebans. She asserts that she is in the right for respecting the gods and that Creon is in the wrong for blaspheming divinely expressed will.
What is Antigone's prime duty in 'Antigone'?
Allegiance to the dead is Antigone's prime duty in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone says that she will spend more of her existence in the Underworld of the afterlife than in this world of the here and now. Disrespect to dead family members and Thebans may not be punished in this short lifetime if so sanctioned by the illegal edict of her uncle, King Creon. But it is punishable for all time in the next world because below-ground burials and funeral rites are guaranteed by the gods.
