Antigone "Conscientious Objection" GRADE THIS ONE

Conscientious objection is when you object to something because of your beliefs. You go against the law because you are supporting your beliefs and what you think is the right thing to do.
Antigone shows conscientious objection by burying her brother. She knows that it is wrong and Creon said that he is to be unburied while his other brother is buried. She knows that the right thing to do is to honor Polynices. She knows that if anybody else would die like a husband or a child she could always get new ones but this is her brother she can never get another brother especially one like him. She has to honor her brother and will risk her life to do it. After she gets caught barring him in the sand by the guards Creon banishes her to a cave to live by herself until she dies. She will never be the wife or the mother that she wanted but she doesn't care because she honored her brother, she did what she thought was right. "Gods of our fathers, my city, my home,
Rulers of Thebes! Time stays no longer
Last daughter of your royal house
Go I, his prisoner, because I honored
Those things to which honour truly belongs (151).
The whole time she knew that she was going to be punished because she was breaking the law but she knew in her heart that she had to honor her brother so she risked it all and buried him.
I think that she did the right thing. She honored her brother and her family. She did break the law but she had to because that is what she believed was the right thing to do and she could have never lived with herself to know that she had let her brother just sit there and rot. I think that she is brave because she stood up to the king and told him that it was wrong to leave him there.
In the 21st century I think that people would have agreed with her and supported her. Buring him doesn’t affect anyone else and she thought that it needed to be done so she should be able to do it. She would somewhat be considered a hero because she is standing up for her family and her believes.