نمايشنامه هاي انگليسي Antigone

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THEMES ANALYSIS
The central concern of the play is Antigone’s fateful struggle against Creon’s cruel edict. Sophocles in Antigone expresses his belief in the spiritual capacity of a human being. Antigone is endowed with the finest qualities. She is noble, upright, and possesses a strong sense of loyalty to family and devotion to the gods. She sticks to her ideals, even in the face of a cruel death.
Creon represents the harshness of the world of physical and political power as opposed to Antigone’s idealistic world. Creon must act to protect the interests of the state and to protect his own interests as sovereign. He follows an ancient tradition of battle in denying the enemy, Polynices, a proper burial. But in doing so, he not only acts inhumanely, but as Sophocles reiterates throughout the play, displeases the gods.