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Antigone: Creon
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In Antigone, Sophocles examines the age-old conflict between the requirements of human and divine law. This universal problem is crystallized in the dispute about the burial of Polynices, in which Creon's understanding of the public welfare is opposed to Antigone's conception of her religious duty ....
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....e the blame for the tragic and of the play.
There are many excellent minor characters in this play and the psychological authenticity of the conversations (e.g., the political argument between Creon and Haimon with its undertone of father and son rivalry) has often been praised. The choral odes and Antigone's, lament are all of high poetic quality. The first stasimon is particularly renowned because of the similarity between its expression of traditional Greek religious thought and the ideas .... |
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