Antigone Essay

The character must decide whether or not to allow the employee’s cousin to work in their restaurant. The cousin must provide for his family through the cold winter or they will become homeless. The character also knows that the law requires him to check the citizenship of all employees and forbids him to hire anyone who is in the country illegally.

In this situation, Antigone’s Creon would definitely not allow the relative to work in his restaurant. He is very strong to his values of the law. Creon tries to have Antigone expelled, but she refuses to listen to and keeps defying him and his power and rule. Creon acts as the President or Governor and he is in charge of making laws that restrict the actions of business owners. As related to this situation, the laws governing hiring illegal aliens.

“ Creon: How shall I earn the world’s obedience?

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,

I’ll have no dealings

With law-breakers, critics of the government:

Whoever is chosen to govern should be obeyed––

Must be obeyed, in all things, great and small,

Just and unjust! O Haimon,

The man who knows how to obey, and that man only,

Knows how to give commands when the time comes.

You can depend on him, no matter how fast

The spears come: he’s a good soldier, he’ll stick it out.

But if any one transgresses, and does violence to the laws, or thinks to dictate to his rulers, such an one can win no praise from me. No, whomsoever the city may appoint, that man must be obeyed, in little things and great, in just things and unjust; and I should feel sure that one who thus obeys would be a good ruler no less than a good subject, and in the storm of spears would stand his ground where he was set, loyal and dauntless at his comrade's sid...

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...ho in this modern day situation would be the President or Governor, and makes all of the laws governing business owners, makes his move against Antigone and the others including his own son Haemon. Creon wants to keep everything in order and wants to keep up his positive political image. Finally, Ismene the other sister, she is very compassionate about her brother but does not go as far as Antigone. She stays back just enough to conform to the laws of Creon, because she does not want to get into trouble and possible exiled and put to death just like Antigone. When Ismene finds out that someone is trying to sneak into her restaurant, she does not want to put them off just yet. She waits a little bit longer than gives the final “no”. Ismene will do everything she can to be on the good side of the law.

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