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Antigone Character Analysis

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Through Antigone’s transformation from goal seeking to content she exemplifies that several people make decisions that affect their environment, lifestyle, and make others put them in a category like civil disobedience. Antigone says, “death, who lays all to rest is leading me to Acheron’s far strand. Alive, to me no bridal hymns belong, for me no marriage song has yet been sung; but Acheron instead is it, whom I must wed” (Sophocles 30). Antigone’s decision affected her chances of getting married and enjoying more of her life. Her life has changed completely and now she has to make the best out of her situation. Since she won’t be able to get married she must wed Acheron (the place she’s going to live out her death) instead. Burying her brother

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