The Truth Hurts
“Once Upon a Greek stage” is a story which teaches universal truth about human
beings. It shows how hard it is to listen to other people when we are wrong, how you
have to face the consequences of your actions, also to think before you act and ponder
the outcome of your actions. The story is an insight to the truth about human nature.
When we are wrong about something we have done or said, it is hard to admit we’re
wrong, and listen to others. Antigone started the whole conflict of the story, when she
believes that giving her brother a proper burial is worth risking her own life. She
ignores her sister who sees the situation from a different point of view, seeing that being
killed for someone who is already dead is not a noteworthy thing. Ismene is
ignored when Antigone is wrong, and she pays for it. Creon is unwilling to listen
when he finds out his niece risked her life to bury Polynices because his judgement was
wrong. He believes that he made the right judgement by not letting Polynices have a
proper burial as punishment. He saw Antigone as a family rebel, and had her left to die.
Creon as well did not listen to his son, who –like the people of Thebes- believed that
what Antigone did was heroic, and right. He believed that there is no law that is allowed
to be broken without punishment, no matter what others think. Denial and stubbornness
is a trait that everyone has, and experiences- it is a part of human nature.
Facing the consequences of our actions is one of the hardest things humans must face.
Antigone is willing to die for her act of rebellion against the king’s rules, but she is
not willing to suffer for it. In the mean time when she was in the cave, there are
protests to free her as well as signs from the gods. She would have eventually been freed
had she suffered lo...