" (Creon, 688-89) Not many people believe that what Antigone did is wrong. In fact, many would do the same if placed in her shoes. So again, this becomes another reason for the people of Thebes not to agree with King Creon. Once Creon realizes what he did by sending Antigone away for death, he wants to bring her back. He goes to obtain her and when he gets there, he discovers Antigone's dead body. This only makes the relationship worse between Creon and his people because not only does he send Antigone away, but now he killed her too. Creon's harsh unishment on those who disobey the law makes many fear him and dare not to go against him. .

             Antigone, on the other hand, tends to be more similar with the martyr in the quotation, "The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins." She holds the beliefs of the gods in high respect. She believes that the laws of the gods should be obeyed above all others, especially when in respect to family. Antigone does not want to let her brother be left without a proper burial. She believes to show respect and love towards her brother, she must bury him. Antigone has very strong emotions about burying her brother against Creon's orders. She actually does go and perform the act of burying her brother as she wishes. This one action clearly portrays the martyr in .

             her. She will receive pain any day over backing down from her beliefs. Even though her own sister tries not to let Antigone commit the "crime" of burying her brother, she still goes ahead with this dead. Just so that her brother obtains the respect he deserves from her, she goes against everything she needs to. Even when confronted by the king and sentenced to death, she refuses to back down from her opinion. Her reasoning goes as this, "And if I must die/ Now, before it is my time to die,/ Surely this is no hardship: can anyone/ Living as I live, with evil all about me,/ Think Death less than a friend? This death of mine/ Is of no importance; but if I had left my brother/ Lying in death unburied, I should have suffered.