The dialectical conciliation as affirmation of the divine in the Sophocles’ Antigone

Abstract

Taking the Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone as object of analysis, this study will start from the presupposition that the relation of tension represented by the conflict between Antigone and Creon serves as an affirmative plane for an instance that superimposes to this tension: that one of the divine disposition. This statement,
however, will be shown in a very peculiar way and by a striking characteristic of the poet Sophocles, through the own detachment of the gods about the tension
in question. Finally, we will look for an antithetical perspective to the traditional postulate that Antigone would be essentially a dissolution drama.