5 Arguements for Algernon
1. I feel Antigone is right for wanting to bury her brother properly. On page 192 Antigone describes how both brothers were killed in the same pitiful manner. Antigone: "Eteocles, they say, he has dispatched with proper rites as one judged fit to pass in glory to the shades. But Polyneices, killed as piteously, an interdict forbids that anyone should bury him or even mourn." One was not necessarily right or wrong. They killed each other on the battlefield. To discard one brother as a traitor and one as a hero in a sense seems pointless since they were both killed by each other on the battle field. Page 1922. On page 210, Antigone brings up the point that the gods do not have such a law as Creon had passed. She feels that Creon's law does not rise above the laws of the gods. I consider this a valid point. Antigone lets Creon know that his law does not surpass those of the gods. Creon: "So you chose flagrantly to disobey my law? Antigone: "Naturally! Since Zeus never promulgated such a law
Unfortunately, tyranny (blessed in so much else besides) can lay the law down any way it wants. He tells Creon that the city has great sympathy for Antigone. On page 212 and 213, Antigone tells Creon that all of her fellow Thebians agree with her but are too afraid of Creon to speak up. Do not be surprised that heaven--yes, and hell--have set the Furies loose to lie in wait for you, ready with the punishments . On page 222, It is Haemon who confronts his father and defends Antigone in her cause. , nor will you find that Justice, mistress of the world below, publishes such laws to humankind, I never thought your mortal edicts had such force they nullified the laws of heaven, which unwritten, not proclaimed, can boast a currency that everlastingly is valid, an origin beyond the birth of man. " Creon: "Your view is hardly shared by all these Thebans here. He told Creon not to be surprised should he be punished for meddling in the work of the gods. Tiresias: "You plunged a child of light into the dark; entombed the living with the dead; the dead dismissed unmoored, denied a grave--a corpse unhallowed and defeated of his destiny below. On page 239, the blind prophet Tiresias confronts Creon. This argument basically states that Creon does not have the authority deny a corpse a grave, that that is the gods job.
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