nd that only while she prospers in our voyage can we make true friends.
The conflict between individual and state, then, is in part a conflict concerning which view the gods will support. The Chorus reinforces this in the statement:
God and the government ordain just laws; the citizen who rules his life by them is worthy of acclaim. But he that presumes to set the law at naught is like a stateless person, outlawed, beyond the pale.
Both Antigone and Creon look to the gods in determining their position. The difference is that Creon believes that the law of the state is ordained by the gods, whereas Antigone believes that the law of the state is separate and different from the law of the gods(and of a lower priority.
When she has been condemned to death for burying her brother, she protests:
And what law of heaven have I transgressed? Why, hapless one, should I look to the gods any more, what ally should I invoke, when by piety I have earned the name of impious? Nay, then, if these things are pleasing to the gods, when I have suffered my doom, I s
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