Chapter 14: Yes, She's a Christ Figure Too

While Antigone does not file under all of the criteria that makes Christ who he is, she does indeed stumble a bit close.  Throughout Antigone, she struggles with the los of her brother, she watches her other brothers go to war over the land and she remains incredibly humbled.  Antigone heavily self sacrifices through the entire play.  She insists on burying her brother although the King has entirely ruled against it.  For even if her brother was a traitor, she loved him.  She sacrifices herself in the end for her message, although she had been offered her freedom.  Foster writes, "12) believed to have had a confrontation with the devil, possibly tempted."  This could represent Antigone's bargain which she adeptly refused and instead took a more wild arm to the deal.