Sophocles - Antigone

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wanted to offer her brother the burial that she felt he deserved. Although it did not seem as though she agreed with what her brother had done she did believe in family loyalty.When Antigone approached Ismene with her proposal, Ismene said no. She justified her decision by telling Antigone that they were already punished and that there was no need to make matters worse for the two of them by defying Creon’s law.
Oh my sister, think- think how our own father died, hated,
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his reputation in ruins, driven on
by the crimes he brought to light himself
to gouge out his eyes with his own hands-
then mother…his mother and wife, both in one,
mutilating her life in the twisted noose-
and last, our two brothers dead in a single day,
both shedding there won blood, poor suffering boys,
battling out their common destiny hand-to-hand. ( Sophocles 60-69)
Isemene tries to say that herself and Antigone are already living cursed lives why make things worse. I ...

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I would try to do anything in my power to buy my mother what she needed to relieve her from pain. People
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do this sort of thing and there are even people trying to get a law passed that would enable people with terminally ill diseases to use this substance. Do I think that this is right or wrong? I do think that it is wrong to use illegal substances. In the situation where it would help to relieve the pain of my mother I would choose my personal conscience over state law. While Anigone and Creon assumed to know what God wants I do not, and I can only judge the decisions that I make.
Now there is the other side of the coin that we must examine. We must ...

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