Moral and Gener in Antigone

As the course Athens to New York begins, four questions are drilled into our heads as the foundations of the course. These questions might as well be Greek to us, for many college freshmen have never been asked these questions before, not to mention required to take a course that is focused mainly on these questions. The questions force us to look deep within ourselves, to investigate what our beliefs and morals consist of and …

…win over his people, who were very distrustful of their ruler. But in the end Creon was the one humiliated, and his attempt to win over his people failed because all along he was being immoral and unjust. Creon’s failure and Antigone’s triumph over her spirit is what Sophocles wanted to portray in his play, and it still survives today with the same significance it did when it was performed in Ancient Greece.