Loyalty In Casca And Antigone

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Casca and Antigone both perceive loyalty as something everyone should have, and it to have a vital role in their lives, but their views differ about what’s more important to be loyal for. Family is something that Antigone is very passionate about and works hard to prove. Both of her brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, died in battle. One, Eteocles, was buried properly in honor, but Polyneices was fighting against Thebes, so the new leader Creon decided to leave him untouched, forbidding him to be properly taken care of. Antigone despised not honoring both brothers equally even though it was against the law,she felt as though no matter the consequence family comes first, and that she has to stay loyal to them even if no one else is.

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