ws that he makes are final, and there is nothing Antigone can do to convince him to do what the gods would want, which is give Polyneices a proper burial. Antigone is very upset by this failure by Creon to bury her brother, so she secretly goes and buries him against the orders of the king. Once Creon finds out she is the culprit, he vows to have her killed for her treason, even though Antigone is the bride of Creon's son, Haemon. He is so upset with Antigone that he goes to any level that he has to in order to prove that he is the one in charge, and that nobody can get away with deliberately disobeying him. This disagreement between Creon and Antigone shows throughout the whole play, and this leads to the revealing of how Antigone sees and feels about death.
             When Antigone finds out about her brother not buried properly, her first thought about his death is extreme sorrow. She is a follower of the rules of the gods, and for him to be unburied is a huge problem. If a man is unburied, the spirit cannot cross over to the otherworld, and they cannot drink from the river that will make them forget the past. The spirit will then come back and haunt its kinsmen until buried properly. She weeps continuously to her sister, Ismene, about how this kind of doom could happen to a lo
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