Antigone, My heart turns into a calmly erupting volcano at your thoughtfulness, my dear sister. Your audacious determination to live by “the laws of the gods”(Antigone, line 65) is the of the utmost admirable. I understand you perceive the burial of my very soulless body against the words of our own blood, Creon, and city to be a “crime that is holy”(58) in both the eyes of the gods and your own. I can not express the very fondness I feel for you as I helplessly watch over you in the underworld of Hades. How I wish I were still alive to commend you for your loyalty to me. However, I have written to you in order express my fear for you and Ismene. Our uncle is very much like you in the sense that he is full of self righteousness. The desire to fight until death for something that we feel is of the utmost importance is a trait that has been genetically carried on in our family for generations upon generations apparently. I must warn you, however, to put a halt to your defiance. Although you feel as though Creon “is not strong enough …show more content…
If you continue to threaten Creon’s rules and ways of thinking, he will do to you as the gods have done to me. This would ultimately leave our dear Ismene to survive alone in this cruel world. Just as you have a deep sense of loyalty towards me, you must project those same feelings for Ismene. She is fearful of Creon , his strength, and breaking the laws, hence the reason she expressed to you that the laws of the gods mean a great deal to her, but she has “no strength to break the laws that were made for the public good” (66). She also loves you just as much as I, which is why she is “afraid for you!” Our family went through a lot during our years on earth, Ismene included. A person’s heart can only withhold so much pain before it explodes like a ticking time bomb. I beg of you not to put such an immense amount of pressure on poor Ismene’s ticking