Analyzing the cause-and-effect relationships within a text can help us to better evaluate the author’s theme. In thinking about the theme of Antigone , consider the choices each character makes. Antigone buries Polyneices in spite of Creon’s edict. Creon enforces his law in spite of his relationship with his niece. What led them to these actions, and what effect did each of these actions have on the outcome of the drama? What message was Sophocles attempting to convey to the audience? These are the questions you need to consider as you work toward an evaluation of theme. Compose a journal entry evaluating the theme of Antigone . Use the knowledge you have gained from exploring the cause/effect relationships in the play to help defend your evaluation. Include direct quotes from the text to support your arguments.

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the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "