Read the following excerpt from Antigone. Then, in a well-developed response of one paragraph, explain how this passage both reveals. Antigone's character traits and helps develop one of the themes of the play. Use textual evidence from the play to support your answer.
Creon [To Antigone): Tell me, tell me briefly: Had you heard my proclamation touching this matter?
Antigone: It was public. Could I help hearing it?
Creon: And yet you dared defy the law.
Antigone: I dared.
It was not God's proclamation. That final Justice That rules the world below makes no such laws.
Your edict, King, was strong,
But all your strength is weakness itself against
The immortal unrecorded laws of God.
They are not merely now: they were, and shall be. Operative forever, beyond man utterly.
I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die
Now, before it is my time to die.
Surely this is no hardship: can anyone
Living, as I live, with evil all about me,
Think Death less than a friend? This death of mine Is of no importance; but if I had left my brother Lying in death unburied, I should have suffered. Now I do not.
You smile at me. Ah Creon,
Think me a fool, if you like: but it may well be That a fool convicts me of folly.
Your response should be composed of a complete 6-8 sentence paragraph, with in introduction, supporting body sentences, and a conclusion. Your response also needs to include evidence from the text in the form of quotes and paraphrased examples.
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