Types Of Irony In Antigone

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Sometimes in life we have to do something they know is right, but other people don't know it's right at that point in time. Like in the story Antigone how she buries her brothers body even though the King Creon says no one is aloud to bury any of the bodies, because it would be intimidating to any of Thebes future attackers. He's said anyone who buries a body is going to be executed, but Antigone buries her brother anyway. Sophocles used many types of irony to show how much Antigone hates Creon for what he did to her brother and all the fallen enemy soldiers.

In many of Sophocles stories he used many different types of irony to show his character's personality. Antigone refers to “our good Creon” though she has already made clear to Ismene

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