The story of Antigone presented us with characters from both extremes of the stubbornness scale. Antigone’s main motivation was her love/loyalty to her family and her value of god’s law over man kind’s law. King Creon decided that law and order was the best thing the country needed after the aftermath of the civil war Antigone’s brother started. He saw it as his job to bring the community happiness because the citizens needed a strong and firm leader. To him, the law is more important than anything else, including family and religious law. Unfortunately, Creon’s good intentions turned him into a tyrant. So even though Polyneices was a family member, he still broke the law and needed to face the consequences even after his death. This motivated Creon to decide that Polyneices needed to be punished and that anyone who buried him would be stoned to …show more content…
Antigone defies this edict despite her sister’s attempt to discourage her. Well, Antigone’s action is found out and she’s punished to death, but not by starvation because that would be shameful. It’s okay to bury someone alive and give them a little bit of food, but it’s shameful to actually let them die by starvation (Pagan)? In the end, she was willing to die for her family because she believed that human law cannot surpass the much higher law of the gods. I actually read the play, anticipating the moment Teiresias showed up to let Creon know that the gods weren’t pleased with his decision. If King Creon had enough religious awareness to not let Antigone die by starvation, then why would he suspect that Teiresias was trying to de-throne him? How many times has Teiresias been wrong? This type of paranoia doesn’t end well, but Creon didn’t realize this until it was too