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Role Of Conscience In Antigone

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Conscience is an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. Society is the the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. It’s your own decision if you want to follow your heart or the people around you. Conscience is the “gut feeling” that we are told to follow. In the story Antigone,it was a difficult road for anyone to walk when following your conscience. In Oedipus, he followed his conscience when he chose to marry his mother and kill his father. He didn’t know that he was marrying his mother but he did know he was going to be killing his father either. Conscience is hard to follow, sometimes it could even seem silly but it usually is the best thing to do. …show more content…

In Antigone, Ismene and Creon were the people that surrounded Antigone and gave their opinion to him. The brothers in Oedipus were the reason for civil war that started everything Eteocles and Polyneices, died fighting each other for the throne of Thebes after Eteocles had refused to give up the crown to his brother as their father Oedipus had prescribed. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, declared that Eteocles is to be honoured and Polynices is to be disgraced by leaving his body unburied on the

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