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Are they really Different?
Antigone is a tragic play that shows how a young woman has the courage and strength to stand up to her uncle, the king, and go against his will no matter what the consequences.
"In the Antigone contempt of death enables a weak maiden to conquer
a powerful ruler, who, proud of his wisdom, ventures in his unbounded insolence to pit his royal word against divine law and human sentiment, and learns all too late, by the destruction of his house, that Fate in due
course brings fit punishment on outrage," (Bates, 1).
Antigone, living in a time when women where considered lower than men, takes a stand and does what no other man had ever dared to do. She buries Polynices, her brother, after Creon, her uncle, had forbidden the act. It might seem that these two characters are very different from each other, but in fact Antigone and Creon are not that different from each other. According to Bates, the author of "The Antigone," Creon and is......

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