Examples Of Disobedience In Antigone

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The Evil of Disobedience Disobedience of the law leads to punishment if a person is caught. When the law is broken, negative repercussions tend to come out of that situation. In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, the protagonist, Antigone, plays a large role in the events that take place when she disobeys and commits her crime against the state. Antigone is to blame for the madness that occurs after burying Polynices because she knowingly defies Creon’s orders and disobeys the law of the land. Antigone is stubborn and will not accept that her brother will not be given a proper burial so she takes it upon herself to bury Polynices and breaks the law. She plots the burial of her brother in a conversation with her sister, Ismene. She continuously …show more content…

Ismene acknowledges her desires, however, she also says to her, “But what more, my poor girl, in times like these / could I do that would not tangle the knot further?” (41-42). She feels as if the only thing worse than the loss of her two brothers would be the loss of her sister in the act of committing a crime. Ismene attempts to warn her that she feels as if this action would only make the situation worse for her and her family, which is immediately disregarded. She does not want to listen to her sister because she knows that she will not like what she has to say and will not take no for an answer. Antigone, showing her defiance of the king’s wishes says, “He has no right to keep me from my own” (50). She does not acknowledge that the king has power over her. He does have the power to keep her away from her brother because he is the authority who has to protect the kingdom. While this may not follow the law of gods or be favorable to them, it is still the law of the city in which Antigone …show more content…

When Antigone is caught and brought to Creon the guard tells him, “I saw her burying the very corpse you / forbade” (412-413). Creon is baffled why his son’s own future spouse would go against his commands. He does not want to punish her like he had promised would happen to anyone who had buried the body, however, he knows that she was the one who defied him. Creon realizes the magnitude of her disloyalty to him when he

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