Role Of Justice In Antigone

The idea of justice is one of the strongest motivators for humankind to make decisions on how to live and whether or not to try and change how one conducts themselves. Creon, in the play Antigone by Sophocles, is immovable in his ideals and confident in his personal idea of true justice, maintaining pride and order in his city-state Thebes. He faces the dilemma of whether to prioritize the good of his city-state by ostracizing a traitor in the family, or to respectfully bury him as is the will of the gods and his kin whilst maintaining his strength and credibility as king, and is ultimately unsuccessful in both aspects, exemplifying him as a paradigm of humankinds inability to attain justice.
Creon has strong and definitive beliefs of what