Antigone and Creon

The difference between Creon's and Antigone's actions is the difference between acting ethically and acting morally. When acting ethically you base your choices on the effect it would have on other people, when acting morally you consider you own personal morals and make your choice based on what your own conscience tells you to do. Morals and ethics sometimes coincide, but often, as is the case in the play Antigone, moral and ethical choices yield very different results. Creon made his choice to forbid anyone from burying his nephew because he wanted to use this attacker of Thebes as an example. Creon made the ethical choice, a choice for the good of his common man. However, this doesn't necessarily make it right. By burying he brother Antigone made the moral choice. She knows that her own conscience will not rest until she does. I think that Antigone made a more correct choice that Creon did. Antigone looked past the demands of her uncle and decided to do what she knew was right. Antigone acted because she loved her brother and she also believed in the gods and she believes that her loyalty should belong with them.