Why Is Antigone Still Relevant Today

Although Antigone has been read and performed for thousands of years, it contains themes that are relevant to today’s world. Antigone, a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles, tells of a family influenced by its past while trying to insure its future. The main characters Antigone, Creon, and Ismene feel they are cursed by the fall of Oedipus and that the family lacks free will because of the tragedy of their predecessors. Creon is trying to establish himself as a respected ruler while Antigone wants to honor her brother’s death. These two goals lead to the main conflict in the play. The theme of determination is relevant to today’s audience and can be seen in the actions of Antigone, Creon, and the world in 2015.
In the story Antigone, the two characher Antigone and Creon have a lot of determination in the story. Antigone is very determined to bury he brother polyneices and give him the burial that Creon would give him. In the beginning of the story Antigone and ismene argue about Antigone wanting to bury her brother and

Creon later in the story finds out that his son Harmon like Antigone and wants to be with her but Creon does not allow him because he is determined to have Antigone died. Creon finally get what he wants and says to Antigone, “O cease, you vex me with your babblement; I am like to think you dote in your old age. Is it not arrant folly to pretend,That gods would have a thought for this dead man? Did they forsooth award him special grace, And as some benefactor bury him, Who came to fire their hallowed sanctuaries, To sack their shrines, to desolate their land, And scout their ordinances? Or perchance the gods bestow their favors on the bad. No! no! I have long noted malcontents, Who wagged their heads, and kicked against the yoke, Misliking these my orders, and my rule. 'Tis they, I warrant, who suborned my