For Love of The Dead Antigone Often times in life it is the smallest creatures that take upon themselves the task of carrying the largest loads. Trudging on, though burden after burden is stacked upon their shoulders. Never was there a more blatant representation of this fact than can be found in the Grecian play, Antigone. A lowly woman charged with the passionate crimes that her heart had committed, and forced to bear the consequences …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…meaning of Sophocles’ work. “Antigone, the tragedy most appealing to moderns…is concerned with the clash of man-made law and divinely ordained law” (McGraw 206). Still others believe that “…the drama reflects the classic conflict between the state and the individual” (McGraw 206). Whatever the case may be, Antigone is a literary work of art, that meets every criteria needed to bear the name of “…one of the greatest dramatic pieces of all time” (Hill 2408). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**