Reflection of Antigone

        The main themes represented by Antigone are love, family, power, law and order, mortality, divinity, and sacrifice. The story begins with two brothers on opposing sides of a war, where both brothers lose their lives. As a result, one of the brothers Eteocles, is honored for their death but the other, Polynices, isn’t. As a tradition, Creon, the new king says the rebel brother’s body cannot be cleansed appropriately and must remain unburied on the battlefield. As a Catholic, the body of the deceased must be respected. In our religion, we believe that it is better to bury rather than to cremate as it subsides with the idea of respect for the dead. In my opinion, it isn’t fair to leave Polynices out on the battlefield, dishonored and disrespected. In loyalty, Antigone, their(the brothers) sister, takes Polynices, gives him funeral rites, and ultimately buries him. However, when she is caught, her sister, Ismene, is then questioned and claims that she was with Antigone as she was committing this act as a symbol of sacrifice. In this story, Ismene wants to follow the rules and uphold her citizenship and loyalty to her king, however, I think that by doing what she did she didn’t affect anything in regards to her sister. At the end of the story, I think that Creon was only following what he had to do as a king and to uphold his responsibility as one. One thing I remember is that Creon needs more empathy. As Creon maintains his role as a king, it seems as if he does not have much empathy, only for the reason that his son(and wife)  was involved in the situation.