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Sophocles's Antigone attacks one of the most difficult subjects man faces: "what is right and just?" From the beginning, it is apparent that two viewpoints are going to be clashing throughout the plot. Creon, the consummate pragmatist, and a true believer in the authority of the state, believes that what is good for the state is what is right. Antigone, on the other hand, believes that there are divine laws, a set of morals, she is bound to live by regardless of mortal decrees.
The conflict begins almost immediately as the play opens with Antigone planning a way for her to be able to defy Creon's edict and bury her brother. She is doing this on the principle that every man has a fundamental right to a proper burial and it is her duty to obey the gods. Antigone's seemingly treasonous actions infuriate Creon who had written the edict to preserve political stability. He believes that the gods favor his point of view because his laws are designed to punish those who are guilty in......

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