Question

1. What is the conflict in Antigone.

Answer 1

1.The correct answer is A, because she disagrees with the human laws which say that her brother doesn't deserve a proper burial because he is considered to have been a traitor, whereas the divine laws don't see such things the same way.2.There are a few themes there. First theme is between a person and the society. Antigone wants to bury him even though the representative of the society, which is the King, forbade it. She does it anyway and shows how an individual fought the system which she believed was wrong and corrupt.
Another theme is the divine law versus common law. Creon represents society and the law of the people while she was burying Polyneices according to Greek tradition based on their religious beliefs. She sticks to divine law over local law because she believes that Creon is wrong                  3. There is no question that pride, in the context of Antigone (and most of Sophocles' works), is a trait despised by the gods and punished without mercy. In Antigone, Sophocles describes the type of pride that allows men to create laws that substitute for divine principles. In other words, when Creon creates a law because he believes it is divine will, that is the ultimate display of punishable pride, for no man can ever create a law that is equal to or above divine right. As a result, when Tiresias comes with the news that Creon will suffer, Creon realizes that he has made a terrible mistake, and yet still refuses to admit it, bending to the prophet's message only because he wants to preserve his life, not because he knows he's gone too far. As a result, he must suffer the loss of his family.

Answer 2

Answer:

Antigone, an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, influenced by the political and socio cultural life of Athens after a civil war.

I would say this story sorrounds several themes I could identify, such as "The relation between Power, Fate and Mortality", also "Law and Justice" or "The Role of Women in Society".

The conflict in Antigone is built in the problems of law and justice, portrayed by the strife between Creon and Antigone.

Creon is one of those characters that rely on the appeal of ethos to develop an argument, like when he states not to give a proper burial to Polynices' body because he led the forces that invaded Thebes, however Antigone urges justice with giving her brother a right burial.

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