People like Martin Luther King Jr. are willing to die for the benefit of the greater good, but is it worth it if they are not alive to see their outcome? Brothers Polynices and Eteocles agree to share power and give it up after they rule, but Eteocles does not follow these conditions. This angers Polynices, and he attacks the city-state Thebes, so Creon declares Polynices in the wrong because he attacks his own city-state, which makes him a traitor. Now, only Eteocles can receive a proper burial, but Antigone believes otherwise, buries Polynices anyway, gets caught and gets put in prison. Even though it was not worth dying for, Antigone burying Polynices contributes to her death because her strong beliefs of moral law against government law miscarry.
At the beginning of the play, Antigone tries to convince her sister, Ismene, to give their brother, Polynices, a proper burial, but Ismene refuses. After hearing this, Antigone became furious with Ismene. Antigone says, “Oh, I shall hate you if you talk like that! And he will hate you, rightly. Leave me alone with my own madness. There is no punishment can rob me of my honourable death” (Sophocles 129). Antigone explains that if Creon were to punish her for
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When Ismene enters while Creon and Antigone are arguing about giving equal rights to the bad and good, Ismene admits to Creon that she much involved in burying Polynices as Antigone. Antigone tells her Ismene that Ismene did not help and that Ismene is not able to die with honor because Ismene did not help. Antigone says, “You chose; life was your choice, when mine was death” (141). Antigone reveals that she knew she could die for what she was doing, but she still executed the plan. She is willing to die for her cause, but it not worth it because she could have honored her brother in a number of different