In Antigone, the author depicts a character responding to injustice by the way Antigone fights for 
injustice for her brother, Polyneices, which continues to the work as a whole by showing how Antigone was 
willing to risk whatever it was for family, despite the consequences it would bring to her life. In the book, 
Polyneices was treated unjustly because Creon, the king, sentenced him to an improper burial, so that no one 
could mourn him. Antigone was very upset about Polyneices having an improper burial, so she decided that 
if she was to help him, she would have to take matters into her own hands. 
 
Antigone wanted justice for her brother, but if she helped him, she would be condemning herself to 
a miserable fate. She knew that defying Creon’s decree would be punished by death, but she just had to be 
true by her principles and do right by her brother, Polyneices. At first, Antigone wanted her sister, Ismene’s 
help. When Ismene said that she couldn’t help, Antigone was upset, but despite the fact that she would have 
no one’s help, she continued with her plan anyway. She preferred being in the good graces of the unliving 
rather than the living. According to Antigone, it is the unliving, not the living who make the longest 
demands, and because death is forever, she preferred being just by the Gods. Antigone did try properly 
burying Polyneices, but was caught by a guard whilst doing so. She was then taken to the king and was 
sentenced to be buried alive. Antigone fought for her brothers’ injustice, although she was unable to bury her 
brother, she did put aside her own fate to do good by Polyneices, which ties to Sophocles theme of putting 
family above all.