Importance Of Justice In Antigone

Justice is the essence of life and is what the whole world should aspire. It is also all what Antigone wanted for herself and for her brother. Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles about two sisters (Antigone and Ismene) whose brothers (Polyneices and Eteocles) killed each other in a fight over who received the throne. Eteocles fought with the town of Thebes and Polyneices attained an army from Argos. Since Polyneices fought against his hometown Theban army, he was considered to be a ‘trader’

Antigone is one of the main protagonists in the story. Due to both her brothers' deaths she declares justice for both of them. Eteocles, one of Antigone’s brothers, has been given a proper burial for his death, while Polyneices, Antigone's other brother, does not get a burial. Creon, the new ruler, banishes the burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a traitor. Antigone doesn’t listen to the law, decides to bury her brother, and is caught. She fights for justice that her brother could be buried

In the plays Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles, Hamlet and Antigone are the tragic heroes whose need for justice are center of the novel. In this argumentative paper, I will compare both characters, Hamlet and Antigone, as they seek justice but instead achieve the role of a tragic hero. Grief can consume any soul. Hamlet and Antigone experience the common emotion that is sorrow. Death is never an easy reality to face. Antigone resorts to disobeying her very own king to find

example, in the works, Antigone by Sophocles, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature by Thucydides, and The Republic by Plato, there have been different accounts of the definition and significance of justice. Each work is significant to western civilization because it is applicable to the same society after all these years. The importance of justice takes on different roles and can affect people in different ways. The “best” person in these works will be the one who portrays justice in the most valuable

a person who works for justice: “You cannot learn of any man the soul, the mind, and the intent until he shows his practice of the government and law” (175-177). Whoever didn’t comply with his philosophy was executed. To make an example of one who defies his ideology, Creon decides to leave the traitor of Thebes, Polyneices, to rot as a decaying corpse. However, there is a great discrepancy when Creon’s decision conflicts with one other aspect of his life, family. Antigone, Polyneices’ younger sister

is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” This quote illustrates the idea that man must live longer with his conscience than with a simple decision made in a courtroom. The distinction between right and wrong must be derived from one’s morals, not the rulings of the state. This concept of conscience conquering law can be applied to works of literature such as the Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Antigone and Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry

Sophocles’ play, Antigone, is centered around the conflict of whether Polynices should be buried or exposed to the elements for the wild dogs and vultures to tear apart his body. The play opens at the end of Polynices’ attempted invasion, which made him a traitor of Thebes, and it is revealed that both Polynices and Eteocles had fallen. The new king of Thebes, Creon, decrees that Eteocles will be buried with honored, but Polynices will be left unburied and exposed to the elements. Antigone tells Ismene

Agarwal- 11th B Judicial Hierarchy in Antigone Judicial hierarchy plays a major role in effectively understanding the positions of all the characters in the city of Thebes. The play, Antigone, is based on the defiance of a king's judgment and thus the questions of right and wrong are of utmost importance when determining the Judicial Hierarchy. Moreover, one needs to decode the opinions of the two primary characters, Creon and Antigone, as their outlook towards justice clearly clash throughout the play

demonstrating how justice remains impartial to the prejudice of men; those who make imprudent judgments will ultimately suffer from the consequences of their actions. In Sophocles' Antigone, these prejudices notably surface in the form of paternalism as demonstrated through Creon's government, highlighting the importance of gender roles throughout the play. Therefore, analyzing the motif of gender roles and its effect on the definition of justice through the perspectives of Ismene, Antigone, and Creon

forces of good and evil. However, G.W.F. Hegel, a German philosopher born in 1770, views Antigone as a conflict between two perspectives, those of Kreon and Antigone. By his reading, the tragic ending is not the fault of any one character, nor of the forces of good and evil; rather, it is the inevitable result of a stalemate between their conflicting moral inclinations. Any analysis of the characters of Antigone is not simply a judgment of their traits. Instead, it is an examination of their moral