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“Who knows? In the world below perhaps such actions are no crime,” (lines 795-96) Antigone retorts when Creon labels her brother as ‘evil’ for fighting against Thebes. Throughout the play, good and evil-right and wrong, influence many of the character’s words and actions. Likewise, as the plot progresses, Creon is educated on a sense of justice not known by many kings; righteous justice. And through his interactions with Antigone, the king is informed of the sense of justice he had overlooked for so long. But by the time he realizes the fatal flaw, his entire life had already spiraled out of control.
Antigone’s sense of justice lied with that of the gods; whereas, Creon’s lied with the laws he had set forth and the belief that anything that stood against his laws was evil. “Zeus did not announce those laws to me. And justice living with the gods below sent no such laws for men.” (lines 509-10) Antigone states to Creon in an effort to show that his laws were feeble in comparison to that of the gods. However, …show more content…
“Antigone” is about the battle of good and evil, and what beliefs are right or wrong. “But the one who died was not some slave-it was his own brother.” (line 598) Antigone reminds Creon when the man tells the girl that her brother, Polyneices, does not deserve burial rites for he had fought against the city of Thebes. Antigone stays true to her belief that only righteous justice is virtuous; however, Creon refuses to budge on the rules he had set forth, no matter what he destroys in his way. Eventually, the king manages to kill every one of his beloved, all because he refused to consider Antigone and what she wished for him to change. “The most important part of true success is wisdom-not to act impiously towards the gods, for boasts of arrogant men bring on great blows of punishment-so in old age men can discover wisdom.” (line

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