Burial

Sophocles makes us think about whether we should follow moral or political laws in his play Antigone. Antigone is the sister of a recently deceased traitor who has been sentenced to no burial by Creon, who acts as the king and also Antigone’s uncle. Antigone makes the moral choice to disobey the law and bury her brother, following the law of the gods. Creon sentences Antigone to death after her arrest. Creon faces the conflict of being a strong leader who sticks to his law, or letting Antigone…

In short, the responsibility of a king is to work for the good of his own people. His “Thebes-first” mentality was applied into the afterlife, as he valued the burial and honor of Thebans over their enemies. Here, he is clearly working for the good of the Thebans. Because he followed his responsibility to his people and defended the city and its interests above all else, Creon and his actions were morally justified…

A tragic hero displays three main traits, a tragic flaw, a family of high class or rank, and is neither superlatively good nor corrupt. A tragic flaw simply means a character weakness, which results in their destruction. In Sophocles play Antigone, Antigone fulfills all three traits conscientiously. Antigone is a princess, because her father Oedipus was the King of Thebes. She is well respected and her unwarranted pride and ambition lead to her own destruction. Antigone’s pride and ambition not…

about his downfall; he just would not listen to anyone’s advice. His stuberness and pride is so immense that he couldn’t bring himself to acknowledge that he could possibly be wrong. We see his hubris from the very beginning of the story. He denied a burial-something he knows is forbidden by the gods. Instead of completely refusing it, he could have arranged a small quiet, quick ceremony, apart from the rest of the bodies. There were other ways in which Creon could have demonstrated that…

affected by this conflict, but in different ways. Antigone is first introduced to us as a young and loyal girl to bother her brother and the gods, that only wants to make sure both her brothers have a proper burial; according to the laws placed by the gods if someone does not receive a burial there will be no way for family members to reconnect with them in their life after death. Creon, who is the king and Antigone’s uncle, sets a law in place that no one is to bury or even mourn the death of…

the funeral home, you may also shop for caskets or urns. You may choose the color according to the deceased favorite color and the design of choice. It’s optional to have a mausoleum crypt or a burial container. The burial container is what they use to place the casket on when they are during a burial and the mausoleum crypt is the area where they hold the bodies that goes into a stoned wall. The ultimate thing to do while at the funeral home is to decide on the programs. You may not want…

wants it. For justice to be given, it means a lot of patience and sacrifice. In the ancient Greek story Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone is a strong, young woman who does not abide to ruler Creon’s decision to refuse her brother, Polyneices, a proper burial. The Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. discusses M.L.K.’s desire to end segregation and racial injustice in America for the good of the people. Although these two bold characters differ in their ways of gaining justice,…

concept of deliberate burial of the deceased amongst the Neandertals. In the Kebara Cave in Israel, 60,000 year old remains of a Neandertal male were found deliberately buried in a pit at the back of the cave. The body was placed in the pit on his back with his arms folded over his chest and his skull removed, with the jaw left in its place. The intentional position of the body and the removal of the skull suggests that there was some type of symbolic elements involved with the burial practice.…

constructed of mud brick and reed built over a burial chamber. Some mastabas contained a serdab to house the image of the deceased and a chapel. In the reign of King Djoser in the Third Dynasty, the architect Imhotep designed a “mustaba-like” like structures with six levels of decreasing sized mustabas stacked one on top of the other to form the Step Pyramid. The step pyramid, which stands 204 feet tall, was built using limestone, and contains a granite lined burial vault (Stokstad and…

Inter-marriages between these two societies allowed for a syncretism of their cultures to immerged, as evidence by the mixture in burial items (Galaty, 2002:120; Tsetskhladze, 2008:xlviii; Wilkes, 1992:105). Illyrian assimilation with the Greeks would have led to political, economic, and social gain for many in the province of Epidamnus, Apollonia, as well as with other Greek colonies…