The Missing Dialogue In Antigone
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After reading Antigone, one might feel that there is lacking a dialogue
between Antigone and Haimon before their deaths. Sophocles does not include any
direct communication between the two lovers during this drama. The reader might
assume that such a conversation could have taken place but was n ....
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.... inject the play with a
question of romantic love and/or loyalty. Family bonds and loyalty are the
crucial issues instead.
The central question of this play is a political one. What should have
more power within a society, the divine laws of the gods or the laws of the land
and the mortal rulers? Antigone is a representation of the divine laws of the
gods, and she remains steadfast to her beliefs that the wishes of the gods
should overpower the wishes of the king. Creon, on the other hand ....
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