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Essay / Exploring Civil Disobedience: Sophocles and King Jr.
[she does not deny it, [she] admit[s] that the act was [hers]” (Antigone 443) and appeals to higher forces in saying neither did. God writes the laws of men. Antigone accepts the death penalty from the start, which puts her will into the act, and moreover the main key to civil disobedience. Although she shows some regret at the end, not of the action itself but of dying without being married or having an inheritance, she profoundly demonstrates that her love for Polyenises is greater than any woman desires to live or have an inheritance.