Morality In Sophocles 'Antigone'

In today’s society, there are a lot of fine lines between moral and immoral, as well as fine lines between what is socially acceptable and what is not. From a moral and societal outlook, Antigone is a character that seems deaf to reason while Ismene is a character that seems much too easily swayed by reason. Antigone is too headstrong for her own good. The only opinion that matters is hers; no one’s words could make her change her outlook on life and death. Antigone is so hell-bent on burying one of her two brothers that died in a battle against one another. Polynices, an enemy of the state, was not buried, while Eteocles was because he was fighting for the country. Antigone decided to bury him in spite of how against it the king is. Antigone believes that the gods’ law is stronger than the law of
Ismene has learned her lesson from seeing these events end so tragically before. She has seen her family members die so many times that she knows not to do the wrong thing because the outcome will not be any different. Antigone holds contempt for Ismene, and though Ismene wishes Antigone will not go, Antigone is too, well, deaf to reason to see the danger she is putting herself in. She is too selfish to realize that getting caught, which on some level she knows she will get caught, will get her killed and take her away from her sister who begs her not to go. Ismene’s quick-response no was her morality speaking. Her mind swayed easily by reason because the law is what guides her to make wholesome decisions. It is possibly anxiety due to the death of most of her family members by going against the system. She knows what the other road looks like, the path of choices that are immoral and societally unacceptable, and she does not want to go down