The Personality Traits of Antigone

In the story of Antigone, Oedipus has already died, his two sons: Polyneices and Eteocles are left to contend the throne of the city of Thebes. In the contention for the throne, the two brothers are killed in battle, leaving Creon to be King. With this power, Creon declares that, Polyneices be left unburied, while Eteocles be given a burial with full military honors. To make matters worse, anyone that were to acknowledge the corpse …

…her brother rot on a field and also left the city of Thebes with a respectful image of her, the woman who stood up to the King and succeed in making him look like the bad guy. Arrogance might not be the best characteristic for a person to have, but I feel that trait gave Antigone’s character the attitude she needed to bury her brother the way she believed he deserved to be buried.