Exposing the Human Condition in AntigoneHeroism involves several things; a selfless act, courage, or results of bold and daring expeditions. A hero can also mean courage in the face of death. Others may view this type of hero as a fool or a martyr. Every hero has flaws and these flaws along with heroic deeds make the man or woman; a hero, a heroine. “Antigone” would be considered a hero in the sense of a martyr. For the love of her family Antigone wanted to give her brother a dignified burial and, despite having committed evil deeds, she respected him. He believed that all the dead were in a state of equality. Faced with the decision to obey the King or her heart, she says on page 23, in lines 86-90: “I will bury him myself./If I die for this, well:/I will stay with him, brother;/and my crime it will be devotion." This decision, to bury her brother, was very heroic because, even though she knew that death was at stake, she knew where her loyalty lay. On page 39, lines 560-575, Antigone argues against to his uncle and tells him to his face that he has disobeyed God's decrees. In lines 562, 563 and 564 he says: "I did not intend to pay, before the gods, / for breaking these laws / because of my fear of a man and gods his principles". Antigone accuses Creon of overstepping the laws of the gods, relying on his own thoughts. As will be highlighted later, Kreon never listened to the advice of others until it was too late. In the passage above Antigone heroically confronts the man more powerful, the King, knowing that he could kill her in an instant, but nevertheless tells him that he is wrong. Being strongly attached to a family, where you would risk dying is one thing, but as in any family a person usually vents their anger and frustrations on individual family members, as in this passage on page 24, lines 100-103: “ Then weakness will be your plea./I am different. I love my brother/and I intend to bury him, now.”Antigone, unheroically, accuses Ismene of not loving her brother, but obviously Ismene loved her brother, Ismene was only afraid of the king. Antigone, in the heat of the moment, interpreted Ismene's state of fear as a sign of Ismene's lack of love..