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Is Antigone A Tragic Play As D
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efined by Aristotle?
Antigone is not a tragic play. Rather it is a theological debate spawned by Sophocles, a debate that is still raging today, the debate of who holds the higher law, the Gods or the State. While this debate has slowly twisted into Church versus State, which is a very different ....
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....“The time is not far off when you shall pay back Corpse for Corpse, flesh of your own flesh. You have thrust the child of this world into living night, you have kept from the gods below the child that is theirs: The one in a grave before her death, the other, dead, denied the grave. This is your crime; And the furies and the dark gods of Hell are swift and terrible punishment for you.”
Sophocles not only poses this theological argument, he also answers it. Once again from Antigone’s admissi.... |
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