"To what extent does the play present pride as the source of Antigone's fate?"
Sophocles depicts Pride as Antigone's demise. As she displays the dangerous flaws of pride in the ways she acts and justifies her decision making. As well as insisting Creons pride into condemning her.
At the beginning of the play we are introduced to Antigone, she is not your Classical Greek women, the play is based around a time where women were not close to being equal to men, and were not to have an opinion. In Greek Mythology Pride is a trait despised by the gods and punished without mercy - There is no question that pride, in Antigone, is a trait loathed by the gods.
Antigone wants to bury her brother who was involved in a war with his other brother who were both to prideful to share the rule of Thebis. Polyneices has been convicted by Creon, and given the punishment of not being buried and sent beyond to the afterlife. Antigone knowingly chooses to override her ruler’s law and decides to bury Polyneices body anyway. “I intend to give my brother burial. I’ll be glad to die in the attempt, – if it’s a crime, then it’s a crime that God commands.” in this passage antigone shows how she chooses to ignore the law in order to honor her brother.…show more content… And loses his sight because of his pride as ruler, and his pride blinds him in front of the laws of the gods. His pride makes him ignorant. Antigone still believes her brother deserved the burial. From here on though we find out that what was originally a gesture to honor her brother and to send him on to the afterlife, a sign of love, is revealed as what was really on her mind, to disobey Creons wishes and his authority. When Creon told her not to bury the body, antigone was too proud to listen, and chose to ignore him, all she wanted was to prove a point - that she loved her brother even after what he had