How Did Antigone Break The Law

Antigone also claims that it is the family’s right to bury their deceased and it isn’t fair for Creon to make it illegal to bury Polynices. Lines (26-33) state, “Why not? Our own brothers' burial! Hasn't Creon graced one with all the rites, disgraced the other? Eteocles, they say, has been given full military honors, rightly so—Creon has laid him on the earth 30

She wants her brother's death to be a proper burial. Instead of him just being left there, she wanted to bury him. Unlike Creon, Antigone didn't want to go by the rules and the law. She wanted things to go her way. Antigone and Creon were way two different people.

Antigone and Creon are two characters that may be considered too similar in personalities, which causes some commotion. Both are confident and persistent in their beliefs and will do what they believe is best in their mind. Antigone is guilty in the eyes of the law because she buried her brother, Polynices, a traitor to Thebes, against Creon’s ruling. Creon has banned Polynices’ burial because he fought for power against Thebes and his own brother, Eteocles, who also died in the battle. Eteocles was granted a proper burial for dying in the name of Thebes, but Polynices was not. Antigone is worried about his burial rights because it is her job as a woman in the family to make sure that her brother is buried so he can get to the afterlife

Creon declares that Etocles should be buried with full military honors. However, because he is filled with wrath towards Polyneices for being a traitor, he maliciously decided that Polyneices should not be buried. Antigone was filled with piety and wanted to give her brother a proper burial. Therefore, she transgressed Creon's decree and buried her brother despite the fact that Ismene was against it also. A messenger had then told Creon that someone buried the body and he ordered the messenger to find out who it was, and to bring them to him. The guards unburied the body and hid in a vigil state until they caught Antigone burying the body. She was not afraid when she was presented to Creon for trying to reconcile herself for the calamity by

She buried the body?! Where is it, where’s the body and who did it? Antigone has two brothers, one named Polyneices, and the other, Eteocles. They both fought for different sides when it came to the Theban war. When they fought in the battle, both of them died, and Creon being their uncle and also the King, he decided that since Polyneices didn’t fight for the same side as the King, that he should not be buried or honored.

In the process of Creon inforcing his law, he lost his wife and his son as well. Therefore Antigone was right in burying her brother because she was loyal to her family and did what she believed was expected of

Creon didn’t give Antigone’s brother Polyneices a burial because he had turned against the kingdom, he caused many deaths including his own brother, Eteocles because of his greed for the throne. Creon stood upon his believes and claimed that “ [he’ll] never act to respect an evil man with honours in preference to a man who’s acted well” (263) He believed that not giving Polyneices a burial would be best because there is no point honoring a man that has brought evil upon the kingdom. Creon let his pride get in the way of his judgment. He didn't take anyone’s advice with the burial.

In this moment, Antigone knows that her moral law should be above the decree of the king. Antigone shows this when she says, “What Creon says is quite irrelevant. He is my brother. I will bury him (Sophocles 4)”. Antigone is set on the fact that she will bury her brother even if it is against the law.

In Antigone, Antigone and her sister Ismene return to Thebes in an attempt to reconcile their brothers—Eteocles, who was defending the city and his crown, and Polyneices, who was attacking Thebes. However, both brothers were killed, and their uncle Creon became the king. He forbade burial is the corpse of Polyneices, declaring him a traitor. Antigone, moved by love for her brother and convinced that the command went against the law of the gods, she buried Polyneices secretly. Antigone lines 72-74 “And if I have to die for this pure crime,/ I am content, for I shall rest beside him;/ His love will answer mine”. It was Antigone’s fate to die after burying her brother. It also was her fate to be Oedipus’ daughter/sister.

Antigone Essay The government has always controlled the way the people live by making laws that gives the people rights, resources, and protection. The government provides protection to the people to protect them from crime and criminals in the country. There are some people who disagree with certain laws because they feel like they are not treated the same as other people in the same society or feel the law is unjustified. The people protest by breaking the law to make their point to the government.

Breaking the rules. Everyone does it from time to time, and the consequences are mostly harmless. But how is something as small as breaking a minor rule even in comparison to the ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone? Both have many comparisons, and differences, but you will find that Antigone isn’t actually as modern as you think. I will give a few examples of this from the story, as well as a few comparisons between a real life situation, and a situation from the story, of someone being punished for breaking the rules.

Antigone chose to give her brother Polyneices a proper burial even though it was against the king’s law. She tried talking her sister Ismene to join her on her quest because Polyneices was both of their brothers, but Ismene did not want to disobey Kreon’s order (Blondell 19-24). This left Antigone to handle this on her own, which takes a lot of courage and dedication to what she believes in. Antigone went on with her plan to bury Polyneices and his body was eventually found by a guard (Blondell 30). When the guard brought the news to Kreon he was furious and the Chorus had suggested it was a Gods doing, which led me to believe that they did not think anyone one else was willing to risk it all by not listening to their kings orders (Blondell 32). A good lesson to learn from Antigone is that even if you break the law you have to admit your doing especially when you know what you did was morally right and what you stand for as an individual. When Antigone was accused of breaking the law and burying Polyneices she did not even hesitate saying, “I don’t deny it; I admit the deed was mine.” (Blondell 38). She even goes on to tell King Kreon that his choice to not allow the burial of Polyneices is morally wrong and how he is disobeying the God Zeus who is offended by improper treatment of a corpse (Blondell 38). Though Antigone knows the consequence for disobeying the king, she continues to fight for her brother’s honor and makes sure to point out the king’s foolish decision. Even in her last words she questions what kind of men can make suffer and then gives her respects to the town, gods, and rulers.

Antigone believed that the actions she took were done for the right reason, because they adhere to the law of the Gods. In opposition to that, Creon believes that the actions he had taken were in fact the right ones, because he believed that Polyneices was a traitor to the land, and that anyone who should give him a proper burial would suffer the penalty of death. So, the actions that were taken by both of them individually were the right ones, in their own minds at least.<br><br>Antigone, in her plan to give her brother Polyneices a proper burial, kept in mind the consequences that she would suffer for having followed through with the plan. This doesn't necessarily mean that Antigone does not obey the human law that is set up by King Creon, it just means that this particular rule conflicted with the law of the Gods, something that Antigone believes highly in obeying, especially when it deals with her family. Antigone disregards the Olympian Justice that governs the land and also presides over the set laws that make civilized life attainable (Segal "Antigone" 172).<br><br>Antigone goes up against human law, by burying her brother Polyneices, knowing well that she will have to sacrifice her own life. She does this only because it is morally and ethically right, and this is why she stakes her life based upon her strong beliefs (Segal

When moral laws and civil laws collide tragedy happens. People die because they are following there moral laws they break the laws for the people they love and don’t care about the consequences. Antigone tried to burry her brother because she didn’t think It was fair that the brother that was destroying the city didn’t got a proper burial and the one that was fighting for good did have a proper burial. In the book it say "but as for me, I will burry the brother I love" (192) Antigone I think Antigone is right for this because people will do anything for the ones they love. Anyone would brake the law if it was their own family member. However people shouldn’t be using that excuse for everything and not just break the laws and say they did it

Though this order was made, Antigone disregarded it and buried her brother. The main point for her doing this was to stand up for her religious beliefs, which she was then oppressed for. While she was being confronted by Creon about her actions, she said, “Nor could I think that a decree of yours—/A man—could override the laws of Heaven” (453-454). Antigone believed that it was the law of the gods for a person to have a proper burial so, she disobeyed Creon’s law in order to obey the gods, who she deemed as more important due to their eternal state (457).