The tragedy play "Antigone" by Sophocles tells the story of how a sister's love for her brother led her to death. Her action in choosing family ties and honor over the rule of the law made her a victim of the prejudiced system of the kingdom.
Antigone's two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles had fought and killed each other. While the new king Creon gave a proper burial to Eteocles, calling him a martyr, he prohibits anyone from giving the same treatment to Polyneices for he finds him to be a traitor. Antigone knows that the king had decreed a death sentence to anyone burying Polyneices but she could not just let it be and leave the body of her brother rot. So, she bravely buried him, thus putting the death sentence upon herself. The protagonist mentioned in the is Antigone, and her aim was to give a proper burial to her brother Polyneices.
