Humanity is often confronted with ambivalence towards the law; at once we find this a necessity in trying to cope with a world that is constantly in a sort of chaotic turmoil, and also as a glaring flaw in our society, which can sometimes result in more chaos than there is. had some originally. This conflict is no more evident than in Sophocles' Antigone. Antigone, the character, represents one half of the struggle between what the law says is right and what we inherently consider morally right – Creon represents the opposing side which sees law and power as the ultimate dictator of the collapse of the life. Even though Antigone is ultimately upset, she sides with justice rather than blindly following the law. Antigone's empathy when she breaks the law represents a model of sympathy for the civilly disobedient when they act in an area that seems reasonably just. Humanism has made a resurgence in today's society; however, it is based on the archetypes presented in history, notably those of the Greeks which were only amplified by the continually tragic nature of their plays. While critics attempt to differentiate between the Greek playwright's intentions in creating an almost overly empathetic, martyr-like antagonist, it is widely believed that these individuals are not brilliant failures of what happens when emotion and meaning moral trumps the law, but rather represents the final culmination of these values ​​– self-sacrifice. (1) Antigone continually portrays these virtues in her actions at the burial of her brother Polyniece; she attributes her morality to gods rather than men, saying: "My honors for the dead must last much longer than for those here." I will lie there forever. As for you, well, if you want, you can show... in the middle of a paper...... g-doing so, that Antigone justifies herself, as well as her fiancée and her brother, even in death. CiteHonig, Bonnie. “The Two Laws of Antigone: Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism.” New Literary History 41.1 (2010): 1-33. MUSE project. Internet. October 16, 2011.Honig, Bonnie. “The forced choice of Ismene: sacrifice and sisterhood in Antigone by Sophocles.” Arethusa 44.1 (2011): 29-68. MUSE project. Internet. November 8, 2011. Johnson, Graham. “Antigone by Sophocles: tragedy as satire? ESSAY 7.1 (2010): 73-75. Dupage College. Internet. November 3, 2011. Lines, Patricia M. “The Flaw of Antigone”. HUMANITAS XII.1 (1999): n. page. National Institute of Human Sciences. Internet. November 4, 2011. Pramesti, Tri. “The tragedy of Creon in Antigone”. in the Limelight 1.1 (1992): n. page. Florida State University. Internet. November 2, 2011. Sophocles. Antigone. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Print.