Instruction
Your task is to design and write a clear, concise, detailed, focused, and interesting short essay of 500-750 words that:
1. expresses explicitly a thesis concerning Antigone based on one of the topics below;
2. supports its thesis with solid, relevant, and sufficient evidence;
3. references Antigone through quotation and paraphrase; Assume for this essay that your audience is familiar with the play, so summary is necessary only as it serves as evidence for a claim the essay is making. Underline your thesis statement.
Choice #1: Which is more important to Sophocles—family or authority? Look at Antigone, Ismene, Creon, and Haemon, and at what happens to them and their relationships. Be sure to cite specific quotes from the play to support your claims.
OR
Choice #2: The German philosopher Hegel stated that the play Antigone represents the tragic collision of right against right, with both sides equally justified. Do you agree with this interpretation? Why or why not?
( also avoid first person references)