ANTIGONE'S PRIDE

ANTIGONE’S PRIDE

The play Antigone is a simple play. A headstrong girl who has great love over her family, one day found her brother left unburied and wanted to give him a proper burial, but she had to defy her uncle the king. Soon she succeeds and she was sentence to death. Then comes in her timid, but later supportive sister, later on her lover, which happens to be the king’s son, who finally commits suicide because he didn’t agree with his father’s decision. It’s a tragic play with everyone dying in the end except the king, which is quite obvious to the play-readers that the king is meant to suffer of his stubbornness. I do understand Antigone’s pain, in seeing her loved one being put in that situation but she has to know that she is going against the law of the ruler and she will get punished. Though she is right by burying the body (according to Creon’s law), but she knew that it’s wrong. What I feel is that she should have done it in secret and be more cautious and not arrogant when questioned. Deep down inside she knows that she defied the law, and she also knows that personally what she did was right, so she would have accomplished it easily without getting caught if she was more careful.