... a much higher power and force than that of the State. Socrates outlined the duties of man in his speech. In both Apology and Antigone, it was necessary for Socrates and Antigone (respectively speaking) to die to ensure an ideal state. For an ideal state to exist, the laws of the state must be upheld and no one must question them. Creon believed that Polynices ... and orders are meant to protect people. The deaths of righteous people symbolize the wrongness and injustice in punishing Antigone for an action that should not have been called a crime. The actions that Antigone took were not ...

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... streets to rot away. Creon believes that Polyneices' body shall be condemned to this because of his civil disobedience and treachery against the city. Polyneices' sister, Antigone, upon hearing this exclaims that an improper burial for Polyneices would be an insult to the Gods. She vows that Polyneices' body will be buried, and Creon declares that anyone who interferes with his body ... , and brothers) make death a gain in her eyes By contrast, if she had left her mother's son unburied, she would have grieved She expects to win glory for her gesture to the gods. Antigone displays the cha...

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... struck back against Hector because Hector killed his friend, Patroclus. Achilles could be described as irrational after Patroclus was killed. While he waited for the gods to stop protecting Hector, Achilles savagely killed many other Trojans and eventually killed Hector purely out of vengeance. Achilles did not ... In the play, Antigone, Creon strikes back against Antigone after she breaks a law. Antigone followed natural law and buried her brother, Polynices" body. Creon had decreed it forbidden for anyone to bury Polynices" body; the punishment for this would be death. When Creon found...

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... hopes that she can keep her sister from giving their brother a proper burial. Also in Antigone, Haimon tries to convince his father Kreon not to execute Antigone as a punishment for her crime. Although these characters hope to convince others in reconsidering their decisions, the way in which they go about it is not successful in changing their minds. Plato's Crito ... Polyneices fought against his people and was therefore left to rot. This was the law given by the ruler Kreon. When Antigone hears of her brother not being buried she decides that she will take it upon herself to give hi...

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... be thwarted. You asked, "Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?" Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know." (42:2-3) By this point we realize that Job only begins to stop suffering after he acknowledges God as God, regardless of what ... occur because of this suffering. All because of the truth, Jocasta hangs herself, Oedipus pokes his own eyes out, Creon banishes Oedipus from Thebes, Antigone hangs herself, Haemon kills himself, and Euridice kills herself. It was the death of all these people that made me question the power and...

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... his intention. The philosopher "fought a thousand battles and met, with divine calm his death-in-martyrdom" (Lukacs 59). Socrates embraces death, for he is certain that "his soul (will) gain in death- who knows?-silence his longings" (Lukacs 60). Through his overbearing pride and ... only by willingly surrendering his life can Socrates uphold the principles he embodies. Like Socrates, Antigone has a similar opportunity to evade death. By simply rendering her brother, Polyneices, dead and not caring for his honorable burial, Antigone like Socrates has a choice between life and death. She...

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