Who Is Antigone A Traitor

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Antigone, the story of the girl who defied the regulations of the the successor Creon, the story of death, traitorship, courage, and love. The kings, Eteocles and Polyneices, rules Thebes together in turns, eventually Eteocles refused to give up the throne and sent the two kings to civil war. The kings perished at the hand of each other, then their uncle, Creon, took the throne of Thebes and considered Polyneices as a traitor and shall not be buried. The brother’s sister, Antigone, refused to see her brother treated without respect and as a faithful sister, she insisted he had a proper

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