Dishonor in Antigone and Chronicle of a Death Foretold Essay -- Greek

The belief and concept of dishonor in the Greek and Colombian culture of Antigone, by Sophocles, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a deciding aspect that blinds characters moral values. It is evident that in both societies Greek and Colombian, a family or an individual without honor is an pariah to the community. As honor plays a drastic role in outlining the culture of the society. Therefore the belief that a perpetrator has brought dishonor upon the family, or community foreshadows penalization for the individual, often conveyed by death. Sophocles provides a setting in his play, Antigone, where the honor code of rules and principles that govern the Greek community, are based upon Creons patriarchy of immoral inwrought law. Where the worst death is a clouded (97) one whose foggy setting brings dishonor upon the individual, and his family. Polynecies is an example Sophocles uses to highlight the significance of a burial, in the Greek society. Polyne cies is a victim of Creons code of honor, which through grotesque diction, Sophocles describes his body as being immorally exposed the vultures left unwept and unburied (29) after miserably fighting bit against his brother in a battle for Thebes, in which he turned against him. Causing him to die outside the law (59) bringing great dishonor to the corpse as it is with a lack of respect, left unburied due to tyranny, but also damns it for all time and dishonors his family. Creons laws are flaw, harsh and immoral, they take on the gods who harp forever (788), up to the point were his actions seize his good mind, (791) and deprive him of moral thought. Creons restrictive democracy motivates Polynecies sister Antigone, who... ...reshadow a death through the blinding process of moral values and actions taken by an individual that has, or whose family has been dishonored and wishes to regain their dignity. Sophocles in Antigone portrays the theme of dishonor through the cultural valu e of burial in the Greek society Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the other hand, condemns the legate of marriage to honor in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. two cultural norms manage in context to inflict with the characters family honor, which leads them into taking immoral and ruthless actions that lead to the innocent death of Antigone and Santiago Nasser, both innocent individuals. Works CitedGarca, Mrquez Gabriel, and Gregory Rabassa. Chronicle of a Death Foretold A Novel. New York Vintage International, 2003. PrintSophocles, and Paul Woodruff. Antigone. Indianapolis Hackett Pub., 2001. Print