Antigone, rewrite

The beginning scene is Antigone trying to persuade her sister to help her bury their brother. This will preserve Polyneices honor among the dead men in the earth. To bury Polyneices is an illegal act and is punishable by death for anyone who participates in the burial. Ismene is far to scared to help Antigone with her act, and even tries to convince her not to do it. Antigone believes that she should honor her brother’s dead and give him a proper burial, nothing that Ismene says will persuade her otherwise.
Antigone loves her family very much and is willing to do a lot for them. She cares more about them than the law or her own honor. This is a trait that has pro’s and con’s. Like I already said, this is a good trait because she is there for her family when they are most in need. But this also means that she will be sacrificing herself and her honor for her dead brothers honor. She will be leaving Ismene in the world by herself, since all other family members are already dead. I think that Antigone should be thankful for what she has (i.e. her sister Ismene) and not just do this one courageous act and then be killed. She should treasure her life and be as caring to her living sister, rather than blowing all of the caring off on her dead brother, only to lead to her own death. Antigone following through with the burial shows that she is courageous and caring, but also is not aware of how she affects the people around her. If she were more aware she would realize that her doing this is ultimately going to lead to her death, leaving her sister with no body. A good family member would be there for her family, but Antigone is too blinded by the idea of honor to realize this.

Antigone is a young lady that lives in Thebes, an ancient city in Upper Egypt. Her two brothers made a mutual agreement and killed each other on the same day. Her father gouged both of his eyes out and her mother committed suicide. Antigone and her sister, Ismene, were the only two left in the family that haven’t mutilated themselves. She is planning to kill a man who she has fallen in love with but cannot pursue for unknown reasons. Her and her sister discuss the planned murder; Antigone states that she is not afraid to die while committing this murder. Ismene wants Antigone to keep the murder a secret so she at least has a chance of not being caught. But Antigone says that she will hate Ismene if she does not tell anyone and everyone of what Antigone has done. Ismene tries to talk some sense into her, but Antigone won’t have any of it because she has her mind set.
Though Antigone plans on killing a man simply because she cannot be with him, I don’t think that she is crazy. It seems to me that Antigone has found her first “true” love and since she can’t be with him, she doesn’t think life is worth living, for him either. Taking as extreme an action as she is planning to make seems pretty average for this family. The rest of her family preformed mutilation on themselves while Antigone is going to harm someone else. For this she is immature and selfish in that just because she can’t have the man she wants, she wants him dead. Antigone is taking her emotions to the extreme and doing something that is unjust and unfair for this man. If she cannot bear to be away from this man and feels that someone should die for it, she should kill herself. She should not be so greedy as to take someone else’s life. Antigone is very immature, emotional, unreasonable and selfish.