When many people think of tragedy, they think of death and suffering, but in Sophocles's Antigone, a different angle was looked at, sacrifice.
Antigone was wholehearted in her beliefs and would do whatever she could to get what she felt right, being her brother Oedipus be given a proper burial. While she was not on the law's side and risked a stoning sentenced by her own uncle Kreon, she didn't care, as long as her justice was served for Oedipus. Antigone had Ismene not on her side due to her worry about the possible death that could occur and therefore she did not take part, but when Antigone was discovered and Ismene tried to take the blame with her, Antigone said, ”You had nothing to do with this; don’t try to claim you had”, all because Antigone was willing to make the sacrifice of blaming only herself to spare her final living sibling.
Along with Sacrifice, I found Antigone go into the topic not often brought up, for someone to realize their own mistakes when it's too late, and this is evident when Kreon learns his lesson, after he sentenced Antigone to be executed, showing the very real life chance of learning what is right at the wrong moment.
Antigone was wholehearted in her beliefs and would do whatever she could to get what she felt right, being her brother Oedipus be given a proper burial. While she was not on the law's side and risked a stoning sentenced by her own uncle Kreon, she didn't care, as long as her justice was served for Oedipus. Antigone had Ismene not on her side due to her worry about the possible death that could occur and therefore she did not take part, but when Antigone was discovered and Ismene tried to take the blame with her, Antigone said, ”You had nothing to do with this; don’t try to claim you had”, all because Antigone was willing to make the sacrifice of blaming only herself to spare her final living sibling.
Along with Sacrifice, I found Antigone go into the topic not often brought up, for someone to realize their own mistakes when it's too late, and this is evident when Kreon learns his lesson, after he sentenced Antigone to be executed, showing the very real life chance of learning what is right at the wrong moment.