Antigone: Is It Immoral To Choose Death?

Immoral to Choose Death? Is it moral to chose death over life if life means going against your religion? This essay will debate over the character's opinions in the play Antigone over the morality of death. Sophocles’ opinion the writer to the play Antigone. As well as a opinion to the morality of death. Is it morally correct to choose to die if it means sticking to your religion? This is the opinion of Antigone and Sophocles, but Creon disagrees and says only a crazy man loves death. The question of if choosing death over life is discussed in the character’s opinions in the play Antigone. Antigone opinion is that the Gods’ wrath is worse than death. She expresses that in this passage, “Antigone-I dared.It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice That rules the world below makes no such laws. Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against The immoral unrecorded laws of God.”(Sophocles pg. 708-709). While Creon’s opinion is that it is immoral to choose death if given the choice to live. His opinion is made evident in the following part of the play, “Creon-The inflexible heart breaks first, the toughest iron Cracks first, and the wildest …show more content…
An examples to strengthen this opinion is in the Bible in 2 Timothy 4:5(New International Version) “But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.” Another scripture that backs the opinion is 2 Timothy 4:7-8, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day-and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.” So if dyeing means sticking true to your religion it is moral to choose to die, even if you die for no reason but chose death at least you will be with