Antigone What Comes First Essay

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What comes first
A question ponders in my mind, do religious duties come before civic duties, or is it the other way around? The story called Antigone greatly helps us with proof on the matter. How the characters in Antigone feel, how Sophocles feels, and how the public should feel about this matter are what we are going to talk about in this essay. Let's begin discussing the different points of views on now this topic should be perceived.
The first point of view, is the characters in the story point of view. Antigone would believe that religious duties come first. “ The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely no” they were, and shall be, operative forever, beyond man utterly” ( Antigone 709 S2 60-63). She believes that God

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