Article Review Antigona A Voice Rebuking Power by...

Sophocles (MLA) Article Review of Sophocles (Order #A2089239) The article I have chosen to discuss is called Antigona: A Voice Rebuking Power. It was written in 2007 by a University of New Mexico law professor named Margaret E. Montoya and explored a legalistic understanding of Sophocles play Antigone. The article detailed a trip to Mexico to see a performance of Antigone in Spanish, but also discussed the legal aspect of King Creons decisions. In the play King Creon acted in ways that were considered to be completely in line with the legal system of the time, however, those actions were also cruel and went against what was believed to be a higher law: the law of the gods. This seeming inconsistency between what was legal and what was moral not only plagued the people of ancient Greece but continued to infect the world ever since. Montoya then brought the argument into the modern world by comparing the legality of Creons actions in light of the accumulation of executive power by then President George W. Bush. In other words, it made a direct co mparison between the legal, yet unethical, actions of King Creon and what Montoya viewed as similar actions by President Bush. The author first concentrated on the element of Sophocles play where Antigone and Ismenes brothers have died in a rebellion against King Creon, who then ordered that Polynices was to be left unburied and unmourned. Although within his rights as king, Creons orders were considered to be highly