The Tragedy of Antigone

The Tragedy of Antigone

Antigone is very self-willed because she doesn't care what the royal law says. She just knows she

must honor her family. It doesn't matter what people say that her brother has done because he is still

her brother and he deserves an honorable burial in Antigone's mind. She admits to breaking the royal

law and defines what she has done as an act of honor amongst her family. Antigone was not afraid to

confront Creon for the law she has broken.

Antigone did the right thing by burying her brother because even though it was against the law

she believed it was her duty to make sure her brother get a proper burial. She knew that it might bring

her to her own death but that did not matter because her family will always come before anything else.

Antigone showed character by doing the right thing while knowing the consequences of her actions.

Even after Antigone's death she did the right thing because Creon has a change of heart and regretted

what he had done to Polyneices and Antigone.

She could have had a different attitude about how she talked to Creon, and she might not have

Been sentenced to such a gruesome death and she would not have taken her own life. Antigone was

mad at Creon for making this law that did not allow her to bury her own brother. She told Creon he was

a fool and had no compassion for Polyneices, because he even though tried to take the throne from

Eteocles he was his nephew and he could have showed compassion for him.

If Antigone had come to Creon with a humble spirit, and without anger, she could have

changed her fate. Antigone could have went to Creon and told him that what she did was wrong and she

was just trying give her brother a funeral. These things may have saved her life, but she chose to show

Creon what a fool he was and for that she was sentenced to a horrible death and decided it was better

to take her own life.