A contradiction I saw appears multiple times was beauty versus ugliness. Creon is saying that Antigone is ugly because of what she is doing and what she is saying. She is ugly for talking about burying her brother and wanting to help him have eternal rest. She is ugly for wanting to bury someone she thinks deserves to have that after they die, to help her brother that she loves. Antigone agrees to this because she believes she is ugly because her father was ugly, but by burying her brother she can become beautiful by doing what is right and speaking her mind as did her father become a beautiful loved king. Also another thing I saw brought up multiple times was the thought of death versus life. When Antigone and Creon discuss Antigone's life Creon does not want her to die because he is tired of paying for the kingdom with things and does not want to pay with Antigone as well. He wants her to live life in a fake illusion of happiness by marrying his son Haemon. Antigone wants to do what is right and wants to bury her brother, she also wants to pay the consequences for what she has done, and she would rather die than live life with the illusion happiness. She finally comes to make this clearer to Creon that she wishes to die for what she has done and is taken away by the Guards.
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