Antigone’s rebellious act against King Creon’s power and laws, created due to the death of Antigone’s two brothers, is what leads to her death. The concepts of Family, Religion and Natural Law are three strong notions that she stands by that guide her decisions through the play. In the beginning of the play the reader discovers what offsets her actions, and the readers are informed that she disobeys her Uncle Creon’s decree that, “ This man will have no grave: it is forbidden to offer any funeral rites; no one in Thebes may bury him or mourn for him. He must be left unburied. May birds and dogs feed on his limbs, a spectacle of utter shame [Polynices]”, ( Pg 11 line 200). Antigone being the stubborn woman that she is, violates the well known
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For Antigone she strongly stands by this, and this bond she has with all of her siblings gives rise to her defiant behavior. As she argues with her sister Ismene, she speaks of how putting her own life at stake for her brother is worth the trade ,if that's the price she has to pay to bury him and honor his death just like their other brother Eteocles. “ Go on and be the way you choose to be. I will bury him. I will have a noble death and lie with him, a dear sister with a dear brother.” (Pg 6 line 70). Family in her instance is put for everyone and everything, she feels that by sacrificing her like to bury him, it will pull him to peace and also be worth her death. With an argument between Creon, Antigone informs him , “ I'm coming home forever, to be held in with my own people, most of them dead now, and gone where Persephone welcomes them” (Pg 41 line 892). She is accepting her fate and realizing that this offering of her passing will allow her to be with her family. She will be putting her life before her own, and finally almost be with the ones she loves the most. These realizations, that family is put before everything will help guide her into her final …show more content…
Religion was one of the the key ideas that drives her to execute the rebellious act. “I have witnesses: the gods below saw who did the work. I won’t accept a friend who’s only friends in words” ( Pg 25 Line 542). Antigone knows who is watching her from above. She believes that they are guiding her through this process. Through the idea of family and religion, she knows her sister should not take the blame for what Antigone did and she knows that the Gods will not make Ismene suffer for a crime she did not commit or take part in. When speaking to Creon, she wants a god to be in on her side during this misery time. She is confused and starting to doubt her belief in these gods, feeling like they are not on her side and is questioning who to pray to. “ If the gods really agree with this, then suffering should teach me to repent my sin. But if the sin belongs to those who condemned me, I hope they suffer every bit as I do now”, (Pg 41-41 Line 924). This is one of her last hopes, to convince herself and Creon that the decision she made was the right one. Even if the gods laws and concepts do not exactly correlate to making what she did not a broken law, she still has her morals and own self beliefs that con confirm the burial to be a correct thing to
For Antigone she strongly stands by this, and this bond she has with all of her siblings gives rise to her defiant behavior. As she argues with her sister Ismene, she speaks of how putting her own life at stake for her brother is worth the trade ,if that's the price she has to pay to bury him and honor his death just like their other brother Eteocles. “ Go on and be the way you choose to be. I will bury him. I will have a noble death and lie with him, a dear sister with a dear brother.” (Pg 6 line 70). Family in her instance is put for everyone and everything, she feels that by sacrificing her like to bury him, it will pull him to peace and also be worth her death. With an argument between Creon, Antigone informs him , “ I'm coming home forever, to be held in with my own people, most of them dead now, and gone where Persephone welcomes them” (Pg 41 line 892). She is accepting her fate and realizing that this offering of her passing will allow her to be with her family. She will be putting her life before her own, and finally almost be with the ones she loves the most. These realizations, that family is put before everything will help guide her into her final …show more content…
Religion was one of the the key ideas that drives her to execute the rebellious act. “I have witnesses: the gods below saw who did the work. I won’t accept a friend who’s only friends in words” ( Pg 25 Line 542). Antigone knows who is watching her from above. She believes that they are guiding her through this process. Through the idea of family and religion, she knows her sister should not take the blame for what Antigone did and she knows that the Gods will not make Ismene suffer for a crime she did not commit or take part in. When speaking to Creon, she wants a god to be in on her side during this misery time. She is confused and starting to doubt her belief in these gods, feeling like they are not on her side and is questioning who to pray to. “ If the gods really agree with this, then suffering should teach me to repent my sin. But if the sin belongs to those who condemned me, I hope they suffer every bit as I do now”, (Pg 41-41 Line 924). This is one of her last hopes, to convince herself and Creon that the decision she made was the right one. Even if the gods laws and concepts do not exactly correlate to making what she did not a broken law, she still has her morals and own self beliefs that con confirm the burial to be a correct thing to