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A 7 page essay that contrasts and compares these two works. While separated by millennia, the twentieth century play Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and the ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles share thematic similarities due to the fact that in each work there are characters who rebel against the standards of society, as well as those who submit to societal pressure and expectation. In both works, the message is conveyed that what society may call rebellion, when it is motivated by firm moral principle, actually is the path to emotional growth, and represents loyalty to a higher calling than the one offered by the state or society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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similarities due to the fact that in each work there are characters who rebel against the standards of society, as well as those who submit to societal pressure and expectation.
In both works, the message is conveyed that what society may call rebellion, when it is motivated by firm moral principle, actually is the path to emotional growth, and
represents loyalty to a higher calling than the one offered by the state or society. In Antigone, Sophocles continues the saga begun in Oedipus the King, as Antigone
is one of the four children of Oedipus, the former ruler of the city of Thebes. Antigones brothers battle over the throne of Thebes, generating a bloody civil war and
both are killed. Creon, Antigones uncle and the new ruler, decrees that while one brother should be treated as a hero, the other brother will be treated as a traitor
and denied funeral rites, allowing his body to go unburied and consumer by carrion. In making this decree, Creon believes that he is safeguarding the state, but he is
also putting the affairs of his family in jeopardy, as Antigone insists on burying her brother, Polyneices. Creon takes this action because Polyneices led forces that attacked Thebes, He did
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one receives a heros burial, but the other, Polyneices, is
left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the people see how a traitor is
treated. Antigone sees her brothers burial as part of her religious duty as dictated by Greek culture and the gods. As this indicates, at the heart of Sophocles
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