From what you have read so far, what do you think the main conflict of the play is?
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I think the main conflict of this play is social injustice. I say this because the king made it his job to bury one nephew and not the other because he thought that one nephew was not worth being buried. Also if anyone tries to bury him they are sentenced to be stoned.
The main conflict of the play consists of Antigone wanting to honor his deceased brother, Polyneices, by burying his body. The King had forbidden Polyneices’ body to be buried as a punishment for betraying his own kingdom.
The play’s central conflict is injustice for Antigone’s brother because his body was not buried like the other brother with honors.
The main problem of this play is injustice. Antigone feel that his brothers weren’t treated right. Antigone was deeply hurt of the fact that one brother was buried nicely and the other one didn’t how it should be.
The deceased brother of Antigone prompted him to display in the character as shown by the play, his brother faced injustice before he died and Antigone is felt really bad about the way they buried them respectively.
From what I read so far the main conflict is unfairness. Antigone is seeking justice for the burial of his brother Polyneices after being awarded he wasn’t allowed a proper burial.
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The main conflict in this play is social injustice. Antigone is seeking justice for the injustice that her brother went through before his death and now her brother isn’t being properly buried as she wants. In fact, the king refuses the burial of Polyneices, Antigone’s brother, as a punishment for betraying the kingdom.
The main conflict occurred after Antigone’s brother tried to invade the kingdom but was killed. Creon decrees that anyone who gives him a proper burial will be stoned to death, and Antigone is so incensed by this that she does so herself, knowing she will be killed for it. Another conflict seemed to be happening in Creon’s mind. He hesitates choosing between his responsibility as king and his family’s lives. In fact, if he wasn’t so misogynistic, he may have made the right choice.
The main conflict among the sister started, due to the difference of opinion, Ismene taking the side of reason and authority, she wanted to follow the rule she was afraid of death, while Antigone was bold and determined to bury the body of her brother, she was not afraid of authority, she was wanted to give due respect to her brother, and loyalty towards a dead person and her emotion was very strong towards her brothers.
The conflict, is between Antigone and the king, Creon. As Polyneices, the brother, went against Creon and died, Creon declares he must not be given a burial, letting his body rot out int he open. Antigone wants to go against the king, but Antigone’s sister wishes to follow the king’s demands to save herself the trouble of the law.