Antigone: Literary Analysis
Love can play a big part in life, and sometimes love can penetrate the mind so deeply that one is willing to sacrifice one's self for their loved one. In the play "Antigone" by Sophocles, Antigone wishes to provide her fallen brother, Polyneices, with a proper burial after he is denied by the king, Creon, for opposing Creon's force during a war. However, despite the penalty of death, enforced by the law King Creon put up against the burial of Polyneices, she buried her brother under cover. Another conflict Antigone encounters is her very own sister trying to…