Disobedience In Antigone

The play “Antigone,” by Sophocles displays an interesting storyline in which the main characters Antigone and Creon undergo various obstacles due to their actions. Throughout the play, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polyneices. By choosing to protest and defy Creon’s rule, Antigone unquestionably breaks the law. However, her defiance does not seem like an act of civil disobedience against injustice because Antigone was acting in her own self-interest when considering dying for her brother. Throughout the play, Antigone’s behavior does not reveal an act of civil disobedience against injustice. When Creon states, “Polyneices, I say, is to have no burial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for him,”