Antigone by Sophocles

Read the full post at - Antigone by Sophocles I read Antigone by Sophocles after finishing Oedipus Rex. Both are part of the Theban Trilogy, which I grabbed from Standard Ebooks. Antigone picks up after the events of Oedipus Rex. The play focuses on Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, who defies the new king’s order and buries her brother’s body—an act punishable by death. The king, Creon, has forbidden the burial because her brother was considered a traitor. Antigone believes the laws of the gods supersede the laws of men, and she’s willing to die for that principle. The whole play revolves around this central conflict: individual conscience versus state authority, divine law versus human law, family duty versus civic duty. What I Liked The themes are timeless. Justice, right and wrong, love, duty—Antigone wrestles with all of them. And what’s most incredible to me is just how old this play is. Humans thousands of years ago were using metaphor and literature to think about the exact same…