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Antigone Right Or Wrong

What is Right
Who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong? In today’s society right and wrong comes from what we as people see as the normal way of doing things. This essential knowledge comes from ones upbringing, parental teachings, and religious or legal instructions in ones society. The knowledge can turn out to have quite a different origin. In Antigone by Sophocles, there is a different code of moral origin between two different relatives. One being the king who sets laws, the other being a woman who breaks such set laws for her own moral beliefs. So this concludes to ask, who is right? Are we as people of being, able to signify what is right and wrong? Also, how does one judge what is right or wrong if we ourselves are ignorant to the supreme truth?
In this story we have two Characters believing that they are equally right. Kreon as a king sets guidelines and rules for the people of Thebes to obey. As a king and person in charge of order he is able and has......


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