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The Death of Antigone. In ... Antigone welcomed death at the time of burying her
brother; she was not concerned with the consequences. She ...
... No tears for the destiny that's mine, no loved one mourns my death." Antigone
completely ignores what the Chorus tells her and tries to get sympathy for her ...
... death. Antigone's death went on to cause Haimon's death, which ultimately
caused the death of Haimon's mother, Eurydice in due time. ...
... I die before my time, why then, I count it gain; to one who lives as I do, ringed
about with countless miseries, why, death is welcome.] (Antigone, Lines 458 ...
... Ismene, unlike Antigone, fears death. She ... I will hate you still worse for
silence." Clearly, Antigone does not fear death. Antigone ...
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In Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone saw her action of burying her brother as a just one. It may not have been just in the eyes of Creon and the people of Thebes, but she was not concerned with the laws that mortals had made. Antigone saw the divine laws of the gods to be much more important than those of mortals. She felt that if she died while upholding the laws of the gods, that her afterlife would be better than if she had not. Our lives on this earth are so short, that to see a good afterlife over the horizon will make people go against the laws of humans.
Early in the play, Antigone felt dying for her brother was a noble action. Death to her was not an ending, but a new beginning in a better place. Antigone's family had been cursed for ages; death was something that followed at their heels. The people of Thebes would always look at her with suspicious eyes. Her father, Oedipus, had caused these looks to be placed on her family forever. Then her brothers killed one another on the same day; her life in Thebes was not good. With such a bad life in Thebes, an honorable death must have looked very appealing to Antigone.
In most societies, as well as Thebes, the afterlife is taught to be much more important than your mortal life. The problem is that we do not know what is waiting on the other side for us. Antigone thought that if she were to please the gods in her life that she could only expect good things in the afterlife. The burial of Polyneices was her ticket to a good afterlife. The afterlife is eternal, and life is just a small spec, compared to the time spent in death.
Antigone welcomed death at the time of burying her brother; she was not concerned with the consequences. She saw her actions as being true to the gods and religion. "I myself will bury him. It will be good to die, so doing. I shall lie by his side, loving him as he loved me; I shall be a criminal but a religious one." (Antigone, lines 81-85) To Antigone, the honor of...
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