Judgement Play
Human beings by nature judge both themselves and others. Judgment comes through a person’s ego telling them that they can have control over a particular situation. This desire for control promulgates a false sense of responsibility in essentially uncontrollable situations. For example, a human feels a responsibility to the dead. Humans build mental and physical shrines for the dead. They mourn the dead with funerals. Most people practice specified burial rituals to ensure a happier afterlife for the deceased. These practices are attempts to exert control over a person’s death and a person’s fate in the afterlife, eventhough both natural and supernatural forces are guided by specific rules that are absolute and unavoidable. The control, judgment, and sense of responsibility over a dead person’s body is absurd and pretentious. Such is the case in Sophoclese’s play “Antigone.” The play begins with Antigone declaring her ego driven righteousness. She declares that she will abandon the (man made)law that states if a man shall “assault the gods of the city, (he will) be denied burial.”(Barnet, Berman, Burto, Draya p.81)
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Approximate Word count = 773
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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