The myth of Antigone depicted in a series of 7 photographs - "Monument of the Congo", Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
The tragedy of glorifying colonialism |
Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy written by Sophocles around 440 BC Antigone was one of the four children that Oedipus had with Iokaste. When Oedipus learned that Iokaste was actually his mother he blinded and exiled himself from the city of Thebes, leaving his two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices to rule the city in turns. Sophocles imposes the question if what is legal is also just and which law has greater value; man's or Gods'? On the one hand we have Creon who as the king of Thebes is by default expressor of the established state authority, while on the other Antigone represents Gods' law with her decision to honor her dead brother. Creon states that there is no worse thing than anarchy, while Antigone replies that state law is not absolute and that civil disobedience is acceptable in cases such as honoring the Gods whose rule outweigh that of the king. The right of citizenship obtains divine properties since Gods' law is tangential to what is right for the citizens.
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