You might want to post this question in the discussion postings for this group to gain a wide range of responses. For me, this play is all about the conflict between our duties to the state of which we are a part and then our own personal duties and what happens when the two collide. Antigone is left between a rock and a hard place - if she is a loyal citizen, she betrays her family and sense of religion by not giving her brother the proper burial that he deserves, and yet if she follows her own conscience she is left as a traitor against the state, burying someone who rebelled against the rule of Creon. Creon and Antigone act as foils for each other throughout the play, as Creon seems to represent a system of rule that takes precedence over
