Conflict

The struggle between right and wrong, the demands between family and that of the government, and the ultimate struggle between divine law and those made by man is the center of Sophocles’ Antigone. Through this expression of Greek drama, a sense of what life must have been like in the time of Sophocles comes across. In his world, women are subjugated and supposed to be silent spectators to the world around them as men’s …

…struggle of humans to find a median where they can be loyal to divinity, family, and government. As C. Warren Hollister so eloquently states, Sophocles “…probed with majestic dignity the fundamental relationships of humanity and its gods, the problem of injustice in a righteous universe, and the terrible consequences of overweening pride.” (129) Antigone is a great example of the search for truth in his dramas and I enjoyed reading about this aspect of Greek history.