PHIL 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wild Horse
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Driving force kreon is concern for integrity, power, law. Antigone is rebellious and is going to do what she thinks is right no matter the cost. This is an older generation of gods who are associated with nature. She represents the feminine values of the time. Kreon takes awhile to make a decision where. More interested in the laws of the state than in the laws of the gods. Kreon is more about the human made institution. He represents the masculine values of the time. would not want to go against the gods. Yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high; With shining furrows where his plows have gone. Year after year, the timeless labor of stallions. The lightboned birds and beasts that cling to cover, The lithe sh lighting their reaches of dim water, All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind; The lion on the hill, the wild horse windy-maned,