Perhaps the theme of civil disobedience that is at the forefront of the show’s message is the reason that the play continues its popularity with each theater-going generation. In any case, Antigone is a great example of the play style of the ancient Greeks. It follows the aforementioned Three Unities (time, action, location), it has a tragic hero, and provokes catharsis. The story is about, simply, of the daughter of Oedipus (see Oedipus Rex for his story) Antigone and what befalls her. The story starts out with Antigone returning from burying her brother Polyneices who has died in a civil war with her other brother Eteocles. However, by decree of her uncle Creon, Polyneices was not to be buried due his misdeeds. During the course of the story the audience is exposed to ideas of right and wrong and whose duty it is to decide, whether it is right to follow the will of man or the wills of the gods, what to do when those wills are opposed to one another, and of the duty of devotion to one 's
Perhaps the theme of civil disobedience that is at the forefront of the show’s message is the reason that the play continues its popularity with each theater-going generation. In any case, Antigone is a great example of the play style of the ancient Greeks. It follows the aforementioned Three Unities (time, action, location), it has a tragic hero, and provokes catharsis. The story is about, simply, of the daughter of Oedipus (see Oedipus Rex for his story) Antigone and what befalls her. The story starts out with Antigone returning from burying her brother Polyneices who has died in a civil war with her other brother Eteocles. However, by decree of her uncle Creon, Polyneices was not to be buried due his misdeeds. During the course of the story the audience is exposed to ideas of right and wrong and whose duty it is to decide, whether it is right to follow the will of man or the wills of the gods, what to do when those wills are opposed to one another, and of the duty of devotion to one 's