It's a simple concept really, love someone, do anything for that love. In this case there is no exception, although Creon seems to think there should be for the benefit of social balance. I can not believe how Creon can be so fixated on what Polyneices was, a rebel against

his home land, that he can not let that go and understand why Antigone wants to bury him, for love of family. So Creon wants to punish her for simply burying her brother. For one thing, he's already dead so he poses no threat to the land anymore. There should not even be a problem there. If Creon thinks that it would be a dishonor to have him buried in his home land that he betrayed, he is not thinking of how he is in turn dishonoring Antigone and her wishes.

I understand that some people would look down on Creon if he let Antigone bury him there, but most would probably not care, for now he is at peace and can do no harm. At one part in the play, a blind prophet Teiresias even tells Creon that the people and the gods wont like the deci

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Approximate Word count = 503
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)