Mirroring Antigone`s acts of disobedience, Sophocles illustrates how civil disobedience must be a driving force practiced by all societies despite its consequences. This philosophical aspect is represented through Antigone`s character, who admitted that she, alone, gave her brother Polyneices a honorable burial. Antigone justifies her actions by claiming that she buried her brother just as God calls all people to be buried, she says, “I did not intend to pay… for breaking these laws because of my fear of one man and his principles” (39). This action by Antigone effectively leaves the citizens of the city with the notion that no individual should go up against the gods to follow the rules imposed by a single man. Through her actions, she demonstrates
