Antigone

In the play “Antigone” by Sophocles, there is a main conflict as to who is wrong and who is right in the death of Antigone’s brother, Polynices. After he died, Antigone tried to bury him, much to the disliking of the king, Creon, because he had forbade it. Creon had deemed Polynices a traitor. As the story unfolds, though, the reader will come to realize that Creon is the one who is wrong by …

…consideration that people suffer from things as horrible as death. People that survive the dead are left to mourn, and the least he could do was let them have a proper burial, regardless of the crime that Polynices committed. Antigone was right by trying to bury her brother. Haemon was right for arguing with his father about Antigone. Creon was wrong and now we can say that he learned a valuable lesson from all this.