Sophocles Antigone Analysis

1. INTRODUCTION
In this essay I will discuss the dramatization of ‘events’ in Sophocles Antigone as occurrence that interrupt routine process and routine procedures using Hanna Arendt’s essay ‘On Violence’ (1969) as the primary source of consideration . I will use one single event from Antigone then explain how these dramatic forms become expressions of the violence resulting from the chosen events.
2. BODY
2.1 Antigone Summary
It tells an appalling story of dedication to the state, divine beings or potentially connection. It grabs after the war amongst Polyneices and Eteocles. The two siblings were given the kingdom to lead in turns by their dad, Oedipus Rex. When it came time for Polyneices to control as his inheritance, Eteocles declined to hand over the kingdom which prompted a common war outside the entryways of Thebes and both of their ends.
Antigone and her sister, Ismene come back to Thebes to discover that both of their siblings are dead, and their uncle Creon has asserted the honoured position. Ruler Creon gives Eteocles a befitting internment however passes an imperial proclamation that sentences Polyneices to be left

Antigone is flooding with events of brutal nature as it is set in a fierce condition. The play starts with the rough activity of considering or "giving-reason" (Honig 2013:128).Antigone harbours considerations of infringing upon the law as is uncovered in her discussion with her sister Ismene. The basic demonstration of thinking is fierce on the grounds that it is splitting far from one casing of one idea to another. It is brokenness of custom or tradition; it is transformative. Antigone considers conflicting with her uncle 's decision. This is exorbitantly vicious on the grounds that to believe is savage as of now, yet to consider playing out a fierce activity is twice as deadly. Law depends on the connection of "summon and submission" and to conflict with the embodiment of law is to break it, which is savage (Arendt