There are many types of bonds in the play Antigone. There is the love bond between Antigone and her fiancée, Haemon. There is a bond between parents and children, as well as the blood bond between siblings. However, for Antigone, it is only the bond between siblings that prevails above the law.
             The love bond shared between Antigone and Haemon was a peculiar one. Antigone views marriage as death (Sophocles, 504-508). In lines 960-964, Antigone states "Had I been a mother of children, and my husband been dead and rotten, I would not have taken this weary task upon me against the will of the city." Her logic is that she will never have another brother, even though she may have another child or husband. So to her, marriage will damage her family bonds, and would not justify breaking the law for.
             Even the bonds between a child and a parent cannot overcome the law. King Creon shows disrespect for this bond when Antigone's sister asks: "Will you kill your son's wife to be?" and Creon replies, "Yes, there are other fields for him to plough. I hate a bad wife for a son of mine. Death- it is death that will stop the marriage for me." (Sophocles, 626-633).
             The bond she shared with her brother was the most unique. She expresses her loyalty to him in lines 81 to 89: "Be as you choose to be; but for myself I myself will bury him. It will be good to die, so doing. I shall lie by his side, loving him as he loved me; I shall be a criminal-but a religious one." Even when brought before King Creon, she preserves and reaffirms her beliefs (Sophocles, 509-515). Considering her position as a woman in these times only further proves her convictions in the bonds between siblings.
             There are obviously many types of bonds revealed in the play Antigone, but it is apparent that Antigone's bonds with her siblings are the most important to her.
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