Research Paper On Antigone

In the Classical Greece period, Plato had a unique cosmological theory that was all about truth, beauty, and goodness. In order to get to truth, beauty, and goodness, we must use reason. According to Plato, Truth will be considered a perfect ideal form because he use forms to identify things as perfect. In order to get to the truth, one must get out of this worldly lifestyle. Plato states that in order to get out of this world, we must get out of our senses. We must think of impermanent as the physical, material world because these are things that we rely on that we consider valuable to sustain our happiness in life. If we do not get out of this material world, we will not ever get to the truth. Plato says everything is an imitation of its

The values in Antigone are loyalty, devotion, and honesty. Oedipus and Jacosta are married and have four children. Oedipus is blind and Jacosta is dead. Oedipus has put a curse on his children that will make them kill each other. Oedipus and Jacosta children are Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismene. Etoecles has been buried as a hero while Polynices was considered a disgrace to the city and was left unburied. Antigone wants to bury her brother Polynices and the king Creon does not think Polynices deserves to be buried because of his act of treason. Creon saw Polynices to be wicked. Antigone thinks Creon is wrong and buries her brother anyway because she saw it as being honorable and not as a crime. Antigone’s devotion is when she state that she is going to bury her brother therefore she is not going to follow the civil law. Creon wants to punish her for committing this moral crime. A moral law is when we are honoring the heavens or God’s law because it is more permanence. A civil law is the king’s order which basically you do what I say or you can get killed because a civil law is subject to change and can sure be wrong. Antigone really doesn’t care if she broke a civil crime because she is prepared to die. Her principle is all about family which is the moral law. Creon wants to bury her alive in the earth and Creon’s son, Haemon, does not want Creon too. Creon tells Harmon to be loyal and obedient to him because Creon sees blood over marriage. Harmon lived by the moral law which is more permanence because he valued the Gods also. Harmon ends up killing himself due to Antigone being buried alive. Evrydice, Creon’s wife kills herself because Harmon, her son killed himself. Creon realize his guilt and see that he was reaching for more than he really deserve. Creon was not honoring the heavens and now he realizes that he took his loyalty way to serious so