Tyranny In Antigone And The Censors

Tyranny is cruel and oppressive government or ruling. This causes a person to make irrational decisions and hurts the ones around them. In the stories Antigone by Sophocles and “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela both highlight the motif of tyranny. Antigone kills herself knowing that she has won the battle against Creon and in “The Censors”, Juan reshapes and turns himself in because he was brainwashed by the tyrant.
In the play Antigone, Antigone buries her brother causing complications with Creon. As the king of Thebes, Creon had made a decree to not bury Polyneices. To Antigone the god’s law is a very important aspect in her life. She says to her sister Ismene “You may do as you like, since apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you.” (page 689, lines 64-66). She knows that it is the woman's duty to bury the dead and a king’s order cannot overrule the gods. As she is a firm believer in god’s law against man’s law, Antigone did not want her brothers soul to be roaming around Thebes and went …show more content…
He was determined to find the letter he sent to Mariana that could cost him her life due to his negligent action. Juan wanted to destroy the letter that has been haunting him as soon as he mailed it. He decided to work for the censorship to find the letter that he sent to Mariana. She had always dreamt of living in Paris and Juan could ruin this with the letter. During the time he was working at the censorship, he changes and turns into a machine himself. Juan becomes pitiless, he censors letters not even thinking of the damage he can be causing others, and even starts reporting his own co-workers. He lost sight of his mission and it was blurred in the back of his mind; became too morphed into a machine; emotionless and helpless. The author Valenzuela writes “...his instincts were so sharp that he found a simple “the weathers