The moral of the god Zeus is to be polite and hospitable to all, regardless of their appearance. In the fifth-century B.C, one of the worst thing that you can do is not bury a person, it was believed that an unburied person would not find rest. In order for Antigone to be the tragic hero, she must be a good upstanding person. That is why Antigone feels like its her duty to bury the body of her own brother, Polynices. Antigone’s effort to bring honor to her family by giving Polynices a decent burial represents her morals, she has to rely on herself to decide whether or not her morals are worth risking her life for. She knows that Creon has specifically demanded “He must be left unburied, his corpse carrion for the birds and dogs to tear” (lines
