Sympathy For Antigone In Sophocles 'Theban Play'

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All creatures are destined to die. When it comes to it, everyone get scared, because no one knows when it is going to come. There are people who know when there time is set. There are people who stay frightened of the idea of dying; on the other hand, there are people who are not. They are not afraid of death not because they do not want to live their lives, but because they have a reason not to. It can be any reason they found it to be good dying for. We can see one of these people in the book Sophocles The Theban Plays. In the fourth scene, we can see Antigone who has been sentenced to death by her uncle Creon the king. She was sentenced to die, because of acting against the king’s order and buried her brother. I have noticed there are a lot of mix feelings in this scene and changes in the characters actions through the play.
In the beginning of the scene, you can see and feel the sadness from Antigone’s entrance with chains and guards. It is not just sadness; also, there is sympathy from Chorus. He completely filled with empathy for …show more content…

as we saw in this play with Antigone. She started with pity for her brother. Then she felt betrayed by her sister and stood up proud to her uncle the king and against his order and buried her brother. After all that, she was humiliated and chained for her actions and was sent to her endless sleep. With that in mind, she did not give up in her believes. She fought to the end to honour her dead brother. Chorus was with Creon and supported his decisions, and then he moved by the scene of Antigone chained and guarded to a place where light cannot reach. Even when he supported Creon, he tried to comfort Antigone before her death. And the last Creon, he kept his word to the very end and acted like any other king would of act to whoever breaks their order. They all had their own feeling toward each other mixed with their actions and made an amazing

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