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February 29, 2020 • 23:04 pm 0 points
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Read the following passage from Antigone and answer question :
 

Creon        :    And yet wert bold enough to break the law.
Antigone    :    Yea, for these laws were not ordained by Zeus.               
                       And she who sits enthroned with gods below,
                        Justice, enacted not these human laws.
                        Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man,
                        Could'st by a breath annual and override.
                        The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven
The three kinds of laws implicit in Antigone's response are :

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  • Amee pargi

    Antigone was arguing with Creone that not to burry his brother's body was against God and so as justice

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    Eduncle Best Answer

    Antigone is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles.  It deals with Antigone's burial of her brother Polynices (Polyneices), in defiance of the laws of Creon and the state, and the tragic repercussions of her act of civil disobedience.
     

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