Role Of Conscience In Antigone

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The ancient Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles has a powerful theme that still reaches us today. To the ancient Greeks, a theme of this play was that divine rule overrides human rule. In the modern day, this theme still applies and is still a strong message: conscience is more important than law.

In the play, Antigone wishes to bury her and her sister's brother, but doing so has been outlawed by the state (Sophocles). Still, her familial loyalty leads her to bury her brother and ignore her sister's warnings, which leads to her arrest, imprisonment, and, eventually, death. These actions defied the law, but they fulfilled Antigone's need to bury her brother. And so, despite her death, she did what was morally correct; she did what she thought
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