Similarities Between Trifles And Antigone

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The ideological construct of justice is a salient theme in both Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Sophocles’ Antigone. Both plays depend on a struggle between what is legally correct and what is morally acceptable to further the conflict present in both plots. But justice is a malleable term - its meanings are so varied that a universal definition is impossible. When a word loses clear definition, it loses its usefulness. Both Trifles and Antigone provide perfect illustrations of how English is mutating beyond the idea of justice as a useful linguistic construct. Perhaps justice was easier defined in Sophocles’ time, when what was good for the state was also considered just. When Creon said, “I would not count any enemy of my country as a friend

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