Essay Archive - Antigone: Following Her Beliefs
Antigone: Following Her Beliefs
Antigone is filled with action, tragedy, and religion. It is a well-written play and is a great book about tragic situations. Antigone dies but she succeeds in following her own beliefs. Her beliefs are obeying gods' rules and not Creon's.
First of all, Antigone is upset due to Creon's decision for her brother's burial being not proper. She is willing to go through the worse to give her brother the proper, respectful, burial. To refuse burial for Greeks means the worse disgrace on the dead. Antigone does not believe in honoring or obeying a kings rules, she believes in only obeying god's rules....
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