Authority In Antigone

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Antigone is a greek tragedy written by Sophocles around 400 B.C.E. The main character is a woman named Antigone who lives in a time when women had only one right, burial of family members. All throughout the story Antigone struggles whether to bury her brother and respect family over authority, or to follow Creon’s law; which in the end, reveals that Sophocles values family over Authority.
In the story, Antigone feels a tremendous obligation to her family. She wants to bury her brother, Polyneices in order to honor her family, even if it is against Creon's law. She also wants to bury him because burial of relatives is a women's only right and she doesn't want that to be taken away from her. Antigone states, “yet how could I win a greater share
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