How Does Antigone Alter Moral Justice

The Altered Morality of Justice Society is unjust, laws do not protect Moral beliefs yet laws always tend to put the hero behind the bars and sometimes that tends to be the solution. Many laws in many forms tend to alter what right means, for example not being able to marry due to the fact that they are the same sex or stoning a Muslim woman to death because she has shown too much of her neck. In the play Antigone written by Sophocles, a young woman named Antigone defies the law. She buries her brother in order for him to go to heaven. However, there was a law that prohibited anyone from burying her brother,Polyneices, because he has attacked his own land, Thebes, to gain power.Yet in the end, Antigone and her sister Ismene get into a huge dilemma. Antigone had the right to

After hearing that her brother has died she is devastated. Yet to put matters worse her brother cannot be buried. In this play Creon declares that, "Eteocles, who fell like a true soldier defending his native land, there shall be such funeral as we give the noblest dead" (Antigone,119). Because Polynices has brought shame, dishonesty to the loyalty, and sought to destroy with his own city, the best way to make him pay for their lost is to not bury Polyneices corpse but "instead let it rot as food for carrion-seeking animals (worms, vultures, etc.)” (Antigone,120). Antigone knows that dishonoring her brother that way is unacceptable. Therefore, Antigone will risk her life to give her brother a proper burial. This action can be compared to the Heinz dilemma. A man, after seeing his sick wife, his love of his life, suffer he decides to risk his freedom by breaking into a lab that holds the serum to cure his wife’s illness. Even though both Antigone and Heinz knew that their actions were wrong, yet the only thought that popped into her head was helping the person who mattered most to