How Did Antigone Break The Law

What is your biggest reasoning for your action: religion or laws? Antigone a play by Sophocles is taken back in ancient Greece where religion and the government were contradicting. For in the play the new king Creon declares that one of Antigone’s brothers will be buried, Eteocles, and the other to rot, Polyneices. In Greece if you were not buried you wandered the Earth for eternity. In Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone did the right thing by burying her brother Obviously, she is risking her own neck to do this by breaking the new law she knows very well not to break. However, Antigone will be rewarded by the gods by doing this. The Chorus ask king Creon, “can it be that the gods/ have done this?” (102-103). The Chorus asking if the gods have done this is showing that maybe he has chosen wrong in leaving Polyneices out in the battlefield. Even if the gods have not taken over they must have helped with her not being caught and no trace of her. The Gods must have at least helped Antigone in the burial of her brother. …show more content…
Antigone tells her sister Ismene that the dead have the consequences of the livings actions (58-60). Antigone says this to show the problems that Creon has put on the dead by making the law not to respect the dead. With his dead of stopping the masses from doing the burial she will, to do the right thing. Antigone states, “I do. I deny nothing” (52) to Creon after being caught trying to bury Polyneices. Antigone seems to be proud of what she has done and will not get out of her punishment. This is showing that she has broken a dangerous law and will not take anything back. For the law that Creon has put on his kingdom to stop Antigone from doing what is