... law that forbade anyone to burry Polynices (Antigone's brother), who attacked Creon's city. All persons who disobeyed this law were to be stoned inside city walls. Not in ignorance, but in full knowledge of the law, Antigone attempts to burry Polynices. When the news reaches Creon that Antigone has done this forbidden act, he questions her, asking if she knew of the law and if she really had committed such a terrible crime. Her reply: "I did it, I don't deny a thing!"(492). Thus are the beginnings of a small revolution. Later, while trying to bandy the chorus into taking her side, she asks, "Hasn't Creon graced one with all the rights, disgraced the other?"(27-28). As if this weren't already enough to make it clear she is appalled at Creon and his new law, she questions to Creon's face, "Dishonor the laws the gods hold in honor?"(91-92) Even when Creon ...

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