Morals/Laws of the gods vs. Laws
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- Even though Creon made it illegal to bury Polyneices, Antigone is determined to put his soul at rest. she brings her plans up to her sister, Ismene, who tries to convince her not to go through with what she's planning to do because of how illegal it is and the punishment that would come with it.
- Antigone: I will bury him; and if I must die, I say this crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death, and I shall be dear to him as he to me.
- Ismene: They mean a great deal to me; but I have no strength to break laws that were made for the public good.
- Creon had made it illegal to give a burial to Polyneices, and Choragus is sort of exasperated. While he doesn't object, he doesn't particularly seem all that happy with the new law.
- Choragus: Only a crazy man is in love with death!
- Creon: You will give no support to whoever breaks this law.
- When caught giving Polyneices a burial, Antigone gets questioned by Creon on why she would break the law. Antigone explains that the law that Creon had set did not erase the laws of the gods, as well as the fact that her own brother not given a burial would've caused her more suffering than any punishment Creon could place upon her.
- After being caught, Antigone didn't deny what she had done, and later when asked why she would defy the law, she responded with: It was not God's proclamation. That final justice that rules the world blow makes no such laws
- Creon: And you, Antigone, you with your head hanging- do you confess this thing?
- Antigone: I do. I deny nothing.
- Antigone: No, Ismene. You have no right to say so. You would not help me, and I will not have you help me.
- Choragus: But see, Ismene comes: those tears are sisterly...
- Ismene sort of admits to being guilty in a way of knowing that Antigone would give their brother a burial, possibly so that all the blame won't go onto Antigone. This infuriates Antigone, though, because when she asked Ismene for help, she was more loyal to the law Creon created instead of being loyal to their brother and helping Antigone with a burial.
- Ismene: Yes, if she will let me say so, I am guilty.
- Creon: You too, Ismene, snake in my ordered house, sucking my blood stealthily... Do you confess your share in this crime or deny it? Answer me.
- Creon and his son, Haemon, argue whether or not his punishment for Antigone is fair. Haemon tries to make his father drop the punishment because what she did is not something that should be punished and because he is engaged to her.
- Creon: 'With justice, when all that I do is within my rights?
- Creon: So?... In a public brawl with your father
- Haemon: How about you, in a public brawl with justice?
- Haemon: You have no right to trample on God's right.
- Teiresias is a prophet, and he is trying to warn Creon of what will happen if he is to continue with his unjust punishment of Antigone and Polyneices. Creon brushes him off, accusing Teiresias of being bribed into saying all this, but Teiresias brings out the big guns and really 'tells off' Creon and it actually snaps him to his sense, but it's already too late...
- Teiresias: Then take this, and take it to heart! 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 a 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 with terrible punishment for you.
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