In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, a young women named Antigone goes through depressing experiences in a tragic story of love, betrayal, and death. The play brings up issues of pride and injustice inside the war-torn city of Thebes. In the play, Antigone’s need to have a sense of importance, willingness to be a martyr, and uncompromising pride lead her to an untimely demise and a fatal final stand in which she kills herself. Antigone’s need to feel important is a fatal flaw and eventually is what kills her. Antigone’s need to be valued is shown throughout the play. Antigone has the idea that she alone must bury her beloved brother Polynices, after her sister Ismene rejects the idea of helping her. When Antigone, later in the play, gets caught burying Polynices and is brought in front of Creon, Ismene runs in and says, “ I share the guilt, the consequences too”(86). Antigone harshly replies, “ Who did the work? Let the dead and the God of death bear witness! I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone!”(86). Antigone is showing her need to feel important and her idea that she is somewhat better than everyone else, by attacking her sister and wanting to take full credit for her crime. Antigone’s desire to respect divine law …show more content…
Antigone’s pride is her fatal flaw. This pride causes her to disobey Creon’s law about burying Polynices. Instead of listening to Creon, Antigone buries her brother anyway, just because she loves him. This dooms Antigone to death. Just after Antigone is caught burying her brother, she is brought before Creon who asks her if she really did bury him and Antigone replies by simply saying, “I did it. I don’t deny a thing”(81). Antigone’s inability not to take responsibility for her actions comes from her pride. This pride ends up killing her because she takes responsibility for burying her brother. Antigone’s pride is a major contributor to her untimely