Antigone: To Bury Or Not To Bury, That's The Dying Question
Antigone: To Bury or Not to Bury, That's the Dying Question
"To live or not to live, that is the question". In Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone buries her brother Polyneices and is told she will die because of it. Did she have a good intention in her actions? After reading this paper a person can see if they think Antigone was wrong in burying him, acting upon instinct, acting nobly, acting motherly towards her brother, or if she really wanted to bury him.
In the book entitled Sophocles' Antigone and Funeral Oratory, Larry J. Bennett and William Blake Tyrrell show Antigone as a noble sister towards Ismene. First, they state that when Antigone is alone with Ismene outside the city gates they start the plan to bury Polyneices, but Antigone says she would "like to do it alone" because she "will die nobly". In support to this point, Bennett and Tyrrell explain how Ismene wants to be a partner with Antigone in the burial, but she will not have it that way: "Ismene's plea......
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