Antigone

In his play, Antigone, Sophocles makes a great interpretation of tragic drama. His genius created a striking conflict between two characters Antigone and Creon that is developed through out the story from the very beginning until the last pages. Both of the characters have their unbreakable ideas and believe regarding unwritten divine law in opposition to human law. Creon stands for the human laws making more priority for it for himself and others as a …

…a decision that will satisfy everyone’s needs. Both divine and human laws are important for human beings. Divine law should be highly regarded because moral and ethic separate us as reasonable creatures. Also the human laws should not be broken in order to avoid a chaos in society, except the foolish laws like Creon set in this play. One must carefully weight divine and human law in situation that both sides must be taken.