Loyalty To Family In Sophocles Antigone

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Loyalty to Family or State Loyalty is an extremely important quality to keep trust and love within family and friends. In Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone’s brothers demised after fighting for the power behind the throne that their father Oedipus bestowed after his death. King Creon chooses to bury Eteocles but, not Polyneices as a consequence of his betrayal to their country Thebes. This generates their sister, Antigone to defy King Creon’s orders to maintain her brother, Polyneices, unburied as a consequence of his betrayal to their country Thebes. Antigone is not afraid to face the outcome of her actions. A conflict comes upon loyalty to state and loyalty to family that turns into an issue between Creon and Antigone.…show more content…
Antigone talks to her sister Ismene about her plan to forbid the law and honor her brother. Then discovering her sister a traitor to her own family. Antigone furiously explains that “Creon has sworn no one shall bury him, no one mourn for him, but his body must lie in the fields”(190).Then, Antigone begins to explain to her sister of her plan to forbid the law. Ismene quickly disagrees with Gonzalez 2 the thought of going against Creon. Antigone weeping with despair, “But I will bury him; and If I must die, I say that this crime is holy; I shall lie down with him in death, and I shall be as dear to him as he to me”(192). As Ismene chooses not to follow Antigone's plan , Antigone is totally surprised that she is being let down by her own family. This does not stop Antigone to fulfill what she believes is right. Afterwards, she gets caught burying her brother and is forced to face the consequences. She then finds herself…show more content…
Antigone tries to explain why she had the right to bury her brother. She is justified in disobeying the law because everyone deserves to have a proper burial. Antigone is not afraid to face the outcome of her actions even if it calls for death because “This death of mine is of no importance…”(208). If leaving her brother Polyneices unburied, she “should have suffered”(208). Antigone achieves her plan and did not let anyone stop her from doing what she thought was right. Creon has a unique belief on the people he should be loyal to and his lessons have shown him to respect the state law; leading to his ruin. Creon accepts his place as King, gives a discourse on what he finds significant: which is to guide the state in the right direction and honor it. Creon explains, “We must remember that friends made at risk of wrecking our ship are not real friends at all”(196). Creon is comparing the ship to the Gonzalez 3 state and says that anyone who is risking power for the state will be ignored. Creon

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