Isolation In Antigone

Antigone’s Out-numbered

Feeling isolated is one of the most depressing and gut wrenching feelings to have. This feeling is not a feeling that people strive to have. Isolation is caused by many different things and can all be devastating to an individual who is isolated. In the play “Antigone”, Antigone is made isolated because of her beliefs, which is not right. She has been isolated by her sister and the rest of the kingdom for a decision based on her beliefs, this causes a tragic ending to the play resulting in multiple deaths.

Antigone makes the decision to go against the king, Creon, and bury her brother. The king declares that this man, Polyneices, shall have no burial because he fought against his country; however, this decision goes

against what Antigone believes the gods would want. Antigone says to “This crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death.”, this represents Antigone’s strong beliefs by highlighting that she is willing to die for her beliefs and that she declares this to be a holy crime. Antigone is told this by her sister, “To break the laws that were made for the public good.” her sister is isolating Antigone by telling her that the rules are not meant to be broken and she will not break them with her. This does not keep Antigone from making this decision. Antigone goes on to bury her brother, which is what her beliefs are aiming her at. Her strong will shows that she does not mind being isolated at that moment.

Antigone was successful in her burial and in not being caught. The king finds out by a man who saw the man buried and came to tell him. Antigone shows up and is sentenced to prison by the king, this is isolation because she is alone and nobody stood up for her, but she takes it. The king’s son is engaged to Antigone and she is still being punished for her beliefs. Antigone is being set apart and put on display to show the rest of the country to never defy Creon. Creon is taking the burial as Antigone saying that his laws were not correct rather than it just being about her beliefs. Antigone’s creed is used against her which shows that people can and are isolated for many reasons.

The end of the play has Antigone kill herself, her fiance kill himself, and the mother of her fiance kill herself. The kingdom was isolating to one person which caused three deaths and much grief. If the kingdom had not been isolating to Antigone the deaths would have been prevented and the kingdom would not have had as much grief. Antigone had her beliefs that differed with King Creon and because of that she was set apart from the rest of the kingdom. The isolation and the end result show that isolation is a devastating feeling for everyone. King Creon ends up being upset that he lost three of his family members and that is important to the moral that when isolation is occurring the end result can be terrible for everyone involved.

In the play “Antigone”, the main character suffers a death by suicide because of isolation. The other character in the book do not agree with her on her thoughts and imprison her in her own world with nobody else. This then causes two other people to kill themselves when they lose Antigone. Isolation, for any reason, is a tragic and misdemeanor because of the effects on the society it has.