Antigone was justified in her acts because there are a lot of people in today's society that did nothing worse by just breaking a law that was thought to be unjust by that certain person anyway, and we call them heroes, so in that case Antigone was a Greek hero. Antigone Accepted her punishment because she knew it was a law. Antigone was justified in her criminal acts because she did something that she knew would end up getting her in a lot of trouble, but because in her eyes the law was unjust, she followed her moral beliefs. Antigone knew that it was a law that Polynices was not to be buried, but she does it anyway. The original punishment for Antigone was death,
Antigone was justified in her acts because there are a lot of people in today's society that did nothing worse by just breaking a law that was thought to be unjust by that certain person anyway, and we call them heroes, so in that case Antigone was a Greek hero. Antigone Accepted her punishment because she knew it was a law. Antigone was justified in her criminal acts because she did something that she knew would end up getting her in a lot of trouble, but because in her eyes the law was unjust, she followed her moral beliefs. Antigone knew that it was a law that Polynices was not to be buried, but she does it anyway. The original punishment for Antigone was death,