In Sophocles' play, Antigone, the reader explores many aspects of a Greek tragedy. In this play, a complex family follows a series of misadventures after hearing a "seer". After the family thinks they're over the worst, they endure two brothers fighting for both their rightful places on the throne. In the end, both die, but one, Eteocles, was buried as king, and the other, Polyneices, remained intact as a "traitor". Their sister, Antigone, believes it is her right to disobey her uncle, Creon, who establishes a decree declaring that the Policies must be left unburied. She called it “the ruin reserved for enemies comes upon those we love best” (Fagles 1984, 59). From the beginning of the play, the audience can see that Antigone is loyal to her family. “It must be left without tears, without burial, a lovely treasure for the birds that survey the field and feast as they please” (Fagles 1984, 60). Polyneices had to remain intact, which could have resulted in a “divine punishment” from the gods in which he would have been sent to the hell dimension. Because of her devotion to her brother, Antigone risked her life to save him from this eternal damnation. Her sister Ismene even notes that she is “truly dear to those who love you” (Fagles 1984, 64). Throughout the entire play, Antigone strongly identifies as part of a family and because she is a member of one, she felt as if it was her familial duty to care for them in the afterlife. Speaking of death at the hands of his mother, he said: "But if I had left my mother's son to rot, an unburied corpse, it would have been agony!" (Fagle 1984, 82). Even when Antigone was accepting punishment from Creon, she still had… half the paper… to bury her brother, however, this act spread to the rest of the country because Polynices' body was left out in the open. Thus, to the reader, it seemed that Creon's family drama was left to the vision and judgment of the citizens. To govern a country successfully, it is not necessary to focus on the internal events of the family, but it is necessary to focus on the country as a whole. So in conclusion both sides clearly have valid points whether they are for the right reasons or not is all up to the reader's interpretation. Antigone was right because he is her brother, and her brother died. For this reason he deserves a dignified burial. On the other hand, Creon was also right because he was the new king of Thebes and he needed to assert his authority among the people otherwise he would have been seen as a weak king.