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Antigone Journals #1 November 21 The main points of interest in the first section of Antigone were that Antigone wants to be a true sister and not a traitor to the family. She tries to convince Ismene to help bury Polyneices. Ismene reminds Antigone that they are only women and are helpless. Though she is sorry to be unable to help her brother, she will not disobey the new law: "I must yield to those in authority" (…

…permission to bury Polyneices he might have allowed it. Instead, she rashly decided to take matters into her own hands. This aspect also appears later in the play, when Antigone decides to kill herself in the cave rather than give Creon the satisfaction of the deed. Had she not been so headstrong her life may had been spared by Creon, who was on his way to free Antigone and have Polyneices given a proper burial.