The first individual that is to blame is Antigone, who is prideful and is very arrogant. For instance this can be seen when Antigone compares herself to the daughter of Tantalus by saying, “I’ve heard about a guest of ours, daughter of Tantalus, from Phrygia— she went to an excruciating death in Sipylus, right on the mountain peak. The stone there, just like clinging ivy, wore her down, and now, so people say, the snow and rain never leave her there, [830] as she laments. Below her weeping eyes her neck is wet with tears. God brings me to a final rest which most resembles hers.” (Sophocles, pg. 32-33). This proves that Antigone is being prideful because in the section right after the chorus explain how Niobe was a goddess and was born divine