I want any future daughter of mine to know who Antigone is and why she's an important figure at least by the age of twelve, so yes.
Creon did nothing wrong. Antigone was trying to honour a traitor who had just attacked the city with a foreign army. Private interest here would have been to invite anarchy.
What makes
Antigone different from other tragedies is that the conflict in it is between two characters who are each trying to impose on the other their sincerely-held conceptions of an ordered, just, and rational universe...and those two conceptions are, through no fault of anybody's, completely incommensurable. So in the end my reading of the play comes down to which of them I find more personally sympathetic, and (in most stagings; the one with Christopher Eccleston as Creon is a notable exception) that's Antigone by a country mile.
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