Humanity is often faced with an ambivalence towards law; at the same time, we find it necessary in trying to deal with a world that is constantly in a kind of chaotic turmoil, and also as a glaring flaw in our society, which can sometimes cause more chaos than it originally was. This conflict is no more evident than in Sophocles' Antigone. Antigone, the character, represents half the struggle between what the law deems right and what we intrinsically believe to be morally right; Creon represents the opposite side that sees law and power as the ultimate dictator of the unraveling of life. Although Antigone is ultimately thwarted, she is on the side of justice rather than blindly following the law. Antigone's empathy as she breaks the law represents a model of sympathy for the civilly disobedient when they act in a realm that appears to be reasonably just. Humanism has made a resurgence in today's society; however, it relies on the archetypes presented in the story, particularly the Greek ones, which were only amplified by the continually tragic nature of their works. While critics attempt to differentiate the Greek playwright's intentions in creating an almost overly empathetic, martyr-like antagonist, it is widely believed that these individuals are not glaring failures of what happens when emotion and a sense of morality prevail over law , but instead represent the final culmination of these values: self-sacrifice. (1) Antigone continually depicts these virtues in her actions when she buries her brother Polynephew; he attributes his morality to the gods rather than to man, saying: “My honors for the dead must last much longer than for those up here. I will lie there forever. As for you, well, if you wish, you can show... middle of paper... that Antigone claims herself, her fiancée, and her brother, even in death. Cited Honig, Bonnie. "The Two Laws of Antigone: Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism." New Literary History 41.1 (2010): 1-33. MUSE project. Network. October 16, 2011.Honig, Bonnie. "Ismene's Forced Choice: Sacrifice and Sisterhood in Sophocles' Antigone." Arethusa 44.1 (2011): 29-68. MUSE project. Network. November 8, 2011.Johnson, Graham. "Sophocles' Antigone: Tragedy as Satire?" ESSAI 7.1 (2010): 73-75. Dupage College. Network. November 3, 2011. Lines, Patricia M. "Antigone's Flaw." HUMANITAS XII.1 (1999): n. page National Institute of Humanistic Sciences. Network. 4 November 2011.Pramesti, Tri. "The Tragedy of Creon in Antigone." in the limelight 1.1 (1992): n. page Florida State University. Network. November 2, 2011.Sophocles. Antigone. UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Print.