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Plays: Their Impact Yesterday and Today Plays: Their Impact Yesterday and Today One of the beauties of where we came from is that it gives us a look into where we are going. This almost takes from a saying but that again is the beauty of the adaptation of thoughts and ideas. The same rings true for historical arts such as those that have a link to the past. In the case of a story written by Sophocles called Antigone you can see the saying come to full light. The reason is that this story holds a fictional account of issues that were true during the Ancient Greek times. The most interesting part of it being that those same issues also apply to the lives of people in these times. In this essay three different aspects of the play Antigone and its translation to Ancient Greek times and modern times. First covering the role of women, then covering the ability or inability to act in the face of perceived injustice, closing with the effects of reckless actions of political leadership. In the play Antigone the heroin plays her part in the general idea of the woman which is to stand by their families for example when Antigone buries her brother in order to save his honor. While Antigone’s sister also plays another part of t