In his play, Antigone, Sophocles makes a great interpretation of tragic drama. His genius created a striking conflict between two characters Antigone and Creon that is developed through out the story from the very beginning until the last pages. Both of the characters have their unbreakable ideas and believe regarding unwritten divine law in opposition to human law. Creon stands for the human laws making more priority for it for himself and others as a ruler who has power. In opposition to it, Antigone's main concern is divine law that is higher than any other law created on Earth. She believes that her power is in it and she challenges Creon setting the tragic story as a conflict between these two subjects. This makes the play breathtaking to read even so many years past after it was written.
             The conflict was set when Antigone buried her brother Polyneices and broke Creon's law that not allowed doing it because Polyneices was considered as a traitor to Thebes. Immediately as the play starts we run into this divergence in dialog between Antigone and her sister Ismene who does not want to break Creon's law. Antigone agrees that if she breaks this law she will be a criminal, but a "religious one" and reasons that the next world is more important than this one.
             The concept of divine law may be described as law of God. This kind of law involves principles of morals and beliefs that are presented by God. These laws present in our everyday life when we make decisions based on the values of morality. When we go against these laws it is said that we go against the law of God. Divine laws are unbreakable and do not change over a long period of time. Human laws are based on current needs and change under different circumstances. This type of law is normally enforced by people known as officers or guards. In other words if somebody does not obey these laws he or she will be prosecuted by humans. This is exactly what we see in "Antigone". When...