Question

What is the play Antigone about? What does this title have to do with the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team?

Answer 1

Antigone deals with three main questions:

whether Polyneices ought to be given burial ritualswhether someone who buried him in defiance of state ought to be punishedwhether Creon's actions are just or thoughtless

Creon was perfectly justified in issuing the edict which deprived funeral rites to Polyneices, who led a foreign army to lay siege to his own city. Creon, as head of the state, viewed exemplary punishment as appropriate. Antigone had a right to assert that in defying Creon's edict she was loyal to an unwritten law which had a higher sanction.[8] Once the initial premises behind the characters in Antigone have been established, the action of the play moves steadily and inevitably towards the outcome.[9] Once Creon has discovered that Antigone buried her brother against his orders, the ensuing discussion of her fate is devoid of arguments for mercy because of youth or sisterly love from the Chorus, Haemon or Antigone herself. Most of the arguments to save her center on a debate over which course adheres best to strict justice.