Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Antigone
I do think that Antigone is a good person. A character who just lost both of her brothers in war, but only gets to see the one get honored and buried. So she takes it upon herself to defy Creon's orders and bury her brother. This gets her in trouble, but she owns up to trying to bury him, and defends herself, because she knows it was the right thing to do. The people know that she was trying to do the right thing, that's why the people were in support of her. She told Creon to just kill her and get it over with, and she wasn't going to wait, so that's why she took her life I believe. I don't think that takes away from who Antigone is, she was defending her brother, and doing what she knew was right and what she knew the Gods knew was right. In that context, I think that she is a good person, she defended what she believed in and didn't try to run or hide from the consequences. Although she probably had a good chance to live a full life as Creon was going to release her.
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